Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Evett '86, a charter member of Robert Brustein's Institute for Advanced Theatrical Training, has decided to stage Faith Healer in the Adams House basement. This two hour talkfest consists of four reminiscences about Francis Hardy (Ben Evett), an itinerant Irish faith healer whose ministrations actually succeed from time to time. Hardy, his wife Grace (Rebecca Clark), and his manager Teddy (Linus Gelber) recall his life, culminating in a disastrous return tour to Ireland. Each character gives his version of the events, with Hardy going first and last; like the famous Japanese short story and film Rashomon, their accounts...
...variation of the turn-to scenarios. He could announce later this year that his tasks as Armed Services Committee chairman prevent relentless campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire, but that he will launch a national candidacy in time for the Southern round of primaries on March 8. This could succeed, Strauss speculates, because the earliest contests might yield a "dog's dinner result" -- a lot of scraps and leftovers -- for the present pack. If so, a Nunn or a Cuomo could defy conventional wisdom by waiting until after that round to leap...
Administrators said they welcomed the programs which were formally announced earlier this month as they will no longer be solely responsible for finding minority job applicants. However, they said they are not sure whether the recruitment program will succeed in bringing more minority executives to Harvard...
...with deep pockets," says Edward Atorino, media analyst at Smith Barney. Murdoch expects to spend $150 million over the next two years and does not anticipate making money for at least four years. "Sure, it's high risk," he says. "But it's high return. If we succeed, we're going to have an asset worth billions." And if not, a place in the trivia books next to DuMont...
Toward the end of his second term, President Eisenhower remarked that he would like to see Robert Anderson, his Treasury Secretary, succeed him as < President. "Boy, I'd like to fight for him in 1960!" Eisenhower said. Anderson, who had also served as Eisenhower's Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense, never ran for office. He became a businessman, an unofficial diplomatic envoy for President Johnson and chief negotiator of the Panama Canal treaty for President Nixon. Last week Anderson, 76, was again in the limelight, but for a different reason. He pleaded guilty to felony charges...