Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Said Fulbright: "The war is described as an exemplary war, a war which will prove to the Communists once and for all that so-called 'wars of national liberation' cannot succeed. In fact, we are not proving that. What are we proving except that, even with an army of half a million men and expenditures approaching $30 billion a year, we cannot win a civil war for a regime which is incapable of inspiring the patriotism of its own people...
Krister Stendahl, Frothingham Professor of Biblical Studies, was to succeed Miller on July 1. President Pusey will announce an interim dean this morning...
...doesn't feel that Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's meditation program can succeed where drugs don't. "I think meditation is a bunch of crap," Joe said. "Anybody who says people are poor because they want to be doesn't know what's happening. And anybody who says you can solve the problems of the world through meditation is tripped...
Churchly speculation on who would succeed the late Francis Cardinal Spellman as Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York mostly centered on familiar names. Rochester's Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was one much talked-about candidate; so was Detroit's Archbishop John Dearden, head of the national conference of U.S. bishops. Last week Pope Paul confounded all handicappers by naming as head of the nation's richest and most prestigious archdiocese a young and virtually unknown prelate: the Most Rev. Terence James Cooke, 47, one of New York's twelve auxiliary bishops...
...Reserve Officer Training Corps does succeed in retaining its special status within American higher education, it will be largely because the nation's most prestigious universities continue to support that special status. The ROTC units at most of the country's best liberal arts colleges are little more than tokens. Harvard's Army ROTC unit, for example, failed last year to produce even the minimum number of commissions normally required to remain in existence. The requirement, of course, was waived, because the prestige derived from a long-established unit at Harvard is at least as valuable to the Army...