Word: successful
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...vacant, the U.S. and the Latin American republics decided to support Czechoslovakia, which in foreign policy is 99.44% Russian controlled. The Czechs, however, figured that they could keep their 00.56% of independence better by staying out of the limelight. Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk campaigned against himself in Lake Success lobbies...
...Success in burglary, as in other fields of human endeavor, depends on keen awareness of changing values. In London's Mayfair last week, a promising burglar broke into the apartment of Adman Patrick Dolan and took...
...four cycles. The last is to be the Age of Kali. It closes in, says the book, when "society reaches a stage where property confers rank, wealth, becomes the only source of virtue, passion, the sole bond of union between husband and wife, falsehood the source of success in life, sex the only means of enjoyment, and when outer trappings are confused with inner religion...
...them. Last week Art Critic Arthur Power, after looking at Jack Yeats's latest show, spoke up: "His figures look at their worst as though eaten by some hideous disease, or at their best as if they had had an unfortunate encounter with a bacon cutter. . . . His success is tempting young painters to copy his careless methods and so robbing them of all integrity...
When General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named president of Columbia University, there were muttered misgivings among many U.S. educators. How does success as a soldier qualify a man as a college president? Most of the complaints could not be heard above the din of crockery at faculty club luncheons, but last week a respected educator brought the talk out into the open. Mild-mannered Monroe Deutsch, 68, vice president and provost emeritus of the University of California, thinks that appointments like Eisenhower's endanger the future of American higher educators...