Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of this untried team in its nine meet schedule may rest largely upon the efforts of Captain Dyke Benjamin. A veteran runner who trains conscientiously Benjamin proved he is prepared for the forthcoming Cornell meet by registering the best elapsed time in the open-field University Handicaps run along the Charles last Friday. He covered the four mile course in 18 minutes, 16 seconds...
...Miami (pop. 290,000) and 25 satellite municipalities (see map). Urban experts and harassed civic leaders in other states looked up from desperate struggles with their common problem-how to develop unified plans and services throughout a central city and its independent suburbs-to pray for Metro's success. Foreign specialists came to study Metro as they once studied TVA. But, with no politicians to defend it, the new idea became an easy target for its natural political foes. Next week Metro's citizens will vote on a charter amendment designed to cripple Metro for good.* Outlook...
...Gaulle's expected victory in this week's referendum. Unlike the voters in France's colonies, Algeria's voters cannot choose independence by voting non. In these circumstances, the F.L.N. has ordered Moslems to boycott the election, and the measure of De Gaulle's success will not be a majority for out (which is already conceded), but the size of the vote. Heavy participation could be taken as a vote of confidence in De Gaulle's abilities to solve the Algerian dilemma. "The majority in Algeria will give De Gaulle the moral position before...
...towering pinnacle of bridge success, Charlie Goren has plenty to keep him busy, aside from playing bridge: his syndicated column (he writes it himself, in longhand), a regular department in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, trips abroad as a sort of U.S. ambassador to overseas bridgedom, 10,000 letters a year from bridge fans (many include ticklish bridge problems, but with the help of his staff he answers them all), and a venture called Goren Enterprises, which licenses manufacture of such items as a card-table cover with rules of the game printed on it and cocktail napkins decorated with cartoons and useful...
Most of today's young poets lead three-baby, two-martini lives at the universities where they serve as assistant professors. The snowy-souled coeds they shepherd through seminars must be highly skeptical about French Poet Arthur Rimbaud's formula for creative success: "Systematic derangement of the senses," sometimes through ordinary alcohol, more often with absinthe, sexual inversion and hashish...