Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vanguard's rocketmen, too devoted to believe in anything but ultimate success, gilded their worries with sentiment. As the moment for last week's shoot approached, one man fastened a St. Christopher's medal inside the bird, after producing a formal equipment-change memo on which was printed, as the reason for the change...
...heir to the soap millions of Mennen Co., Williams finds precedent for his presidential hopes in the political success of another Democrat born to wealth. Writes he: "Many younger businessmen who would like to participate actively in the Democratic Party do not do so because they are afraid to. In some areas the young man in a profession or in business is ostracized if he becomes or remains a Democrat. He is looked on as a traitor to his class. This epithet was applied to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and I have heard this foolishness applied...
This limited success does not "imply any general relaxation in monetary policy," the bank announced; inside Britain, the credit squeeze against creeping inflation will continue...
...Georgians expect Bill Hartsfield to have better success than earlier pleaders. But Georgians do believe that the county-unit system will eventually be defeated. The state's population is flowing from farm to city; growing cities-Macon, Augusta, Savannah, etc.-are beginning to suffer what Atlanta has suffered for 60 years at the hands of county legislators. When the cities agitate together, the wool-hats' reign may be doomed at last...
...Serge Poliakoff, a gypsy who paints geometric designs and says his "ambition is to speak the truth ... A red circle is not the sun. It is a red circle." ¶ Bernard Buffet, who once used his mother's torn sheets as canvases, has had the most spectacular success, now owns a chateau and a Rolls, says "wealth aids my creative spirit; poverty does not necessarily help genius." A painter of contorted, distorted, sad human beings, Buffet is as disillusioned and almost as popular in France as his friend, Novelist Francoise Sagan (see MILESTONES). The opening of his recent retrospective...