Word: succeeding
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...essence, Radcliffe is competing with Harvard--a word which President Bunting avoids for very good reasons. It must win from Harvard the attention of the Faculty and even the interest of its own students if it wants to succeed in creating an independent and self-sustained system of residential education...
...Atlanta will also have a moderate mayor to succeed Moderate William Berry Hartsfield, 71, who is retiring after 24 years in office. The city's voters have rejected a segregationist candidate, chosen instead, by a landslide of 64,313 to 36,091, Ivan Allen Jr., 50, proprietor of the South's biggest office-supply firm...
Some economists think the Soviet Union may succeed in making the shift within the next ten years. A member of the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization says: "Russia is now entering the ranks of those nations wealthy enough to be able to raise the prices paid to farmers and thus make collective work more profitable than private." In other words, Moscow may finally achieve its Communist goal when it has enough ready money to afford the capitalist technique of subsidizing the farmers...
There lives today near Paris an ascetic, unobtrusive Frenchman who may ultimately succeed where others, from Charlemagne to Napoleon, ultimately failed. He commands no armies or popular following, but his work is worth uncounted divisions to the West. He has neither title nor portfolio, but he has privileged access to every chancellery of Western Europe. He has no formal higher education, but the world's most brilliant economists regard him as their peer. He has never joined a political party, but parliamentarians across Europe flock to his summons. His name is Jean Monnet, and he is the practical apostle...
...stages in the life of man, liberty has been a rare and precious commodity, but free men of strong will have never complained that the price was too high. Despite the threat of thermonuclear war, the U.S. clearly has a will to survive and succeed (see The People). Despite unemployment and small weaknesses in the economy, the nation has the prosperity to pay for freedom. There can be little doubt that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, if he asks for it, can gather the national riches and focus the national energy and will for the creative work that lies ahead in building...