Word: successful
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...approach toward filling that gap is through political organization, e.g., the United Nations. Yet the U.N., although valuable as a political forum, has been no conspicuous success in dispensing international justice, and its International Court of Justice has disposed of about one case a year for the last twelve years. An elaborate plan for strengthening the legal powers of the U.N. is found in World Peace Through World Law, a recently published book by Lawyers Grenville Clark and Louis B. Sohn. They urge revision of the U.N. Charter so as to provide for eventual total disarmament, an international police force...
...famed Hamlet on TV, sat down and wrote an impressive two-hour adaptation of the play. She persuaded Hallmark Cards' canny President Joyce C. Hall to back her. In those days, two hours of Shakespeare was a heady gamble, but Evans' Hamlet was a whacking success, and Hallmark was credited with breaking TV's time barrier. Since then, Hall of Fame has put on some of TV's best dramatic shows, ranging from The Corn Is Green to Annie Get Your Gun and Twelfth Night, with such able actors as Mary...
...Oscar, 51, success is hard. He is off the bottle ("I don't drink liquor. I don't like it. It makes me feel good"), but his psychiatrist sessions went up from one to three a week...
Bill Cunningham, who leads the Holy Cross team, will face the Crimson's number one man, Alan Steinert. Last Friday in a triangular meet with Princeton and Brown, Steinert scored a one under par on the same course to defeat both his opponents and hopes to repeat his success today...
High on a hill above a village somewhere there stood a large mansion constructed by a man who could think of nothing better to do with his money than set up his own world. He managed with only middling success to convey his idea of that world to the architects, carpenters, masons, etc., but it was certainly true that the finished product had a little bit of everything...