Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a blend of carnival and first-class track and field competition. Unfortunately, performances have been spotty, purses have been paltry, and the tour's personalities have shown little of the crowd-pulling pizazz so important to commercial survival. The I.T.A. still has problems, but its struggle to succeed has been made easier by a pair of iconoclastic performers: Shotputter Brian Oldfield and Pole Vaulter Steve Smith. Both world-record holders, they are also flaky, free spirits who have just what it takes to make the tour more successful...
Harvard clearly did not gain so much as it lost, although in December Harvard officials did succeed in negotiating a $207,000 three-year grant that will ostensibly help graduate teaching fellows improve the quality of their teaching...
...haberdasher from Missouri seems fit for Mount Rushmore. Of recent Presidents, only Truman and Dwight Eisenhower (whom H.S.T. resented) were able to retire from office with their reputations largely intact. Yet Truman never wasted a second polishing his image. He actively campaigned for Adlai Stevenson as the man to succeed him as Democratic standard bearer-but grumbled that the Hamlet-like Illinois Governor "was too busy making up his mind whether he had to go to the bathroom or not." Enemies fared far worse, rhetorically. According to Merle Miller, Truman called Nixon "a shifty-eyed goddam liar," and described General...
They have prepared themselves very well with a great deal of penetration in the middle classes. If they succeed in not losing on the extreme left, they should hold their position. If they also succeed in their attempt to take votes from the Socialists, then they will have scored a notable success, increasing their vote...
...bogus cure-alls door-to-door to the indifferent and openly contemptuous rich. He is the compulsive actor, always "on", even in the midst of his death throes, only rarely exposing the layer of bitterness which rages underneath his act. Contemplating the reasons that he was never able to succeed in show business, he attributes his failures to the dominance of the industry by Jews...