Word: successful
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...governor of a state in which the political sands are always shifting, he has been a popular success by keeping to the middle of the road. Though a solid Republican, he has taken advantage of state electoral laws to run on both Democratic & Republican tickets, has appointed office holders of both parties. He has also 1) cut the state sales tax from 3% to 2½ %; 2) raised old age pensions from $40 to $50 a month; 3) ticketed $450 million for postwar development; 4) raised gas taxes by 1½? a gallon (over oilmen's protests) to finance...
...Lake Success, N.Y. appeared scholarly Kung Teh-cheng, 28, for a look at U.N. headquarters. He proved to be the great-great-(to the 77th generation )grandson of Confucius, in the U.S. for conversations with U.S. scholars. To the press, Kung said of U.N.: his ancestor would have okayed the general idea...
Three years ago Père Riquet preached to his first large Paris audience, dressed in the faded, striped prison uniform of Dachau (where he was sent for helping U.S. and British flyers escape from France). So great was his success that he was appointed prédicateur (preacher) at Notre Dame. Since then, half of Paris has come to hear him-including Communist Chieftains Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos, as well as middle-road Premier Schuman...
Outside Notre Dame recently, a dignified, grey-haired civil engineer undertook to explain Father Riquet's success: "Voilà, at last a priest who makes sense. I don't care about his Jesuit politics, nor even about his soutane [cassock]. He represents something which we lack in France; he fills a gap because he is able to reconcile logic and faith...
Meanwhile, hearings at the State Board of Mediation continued without success this week. Local 6, Hotel and Club Employees Union, AFI, filed a complaint with the State Labor Relations Board charging the Club with unfair labor practices...