Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispatched Major Salah Salem to dance with the natives in his undershorts and ladle out a reported $5,000,000 trying to swing the Sudanese toward merger with Egypt; the Sudanese politicians took the money, rejected the merger and, in 1955, declared themselves independent. Last week, flushed with his success to the east, ambitious Gamal Abdel Nasser brazenly attempted to expand to the south. He discovered that the Sudanese were not as annexation-prone as the Syrians...
...meeting of 700 professors and presidents of U.S. teachers colleges, Paul Woodring (Let's Talk Sense About Our Schools) warned that a whole new mood has settled over the country. Once, said he, "we wanted every child to be happy and contented and to have a feeling of success. We thought this could best be assured by de-emphasizing standards, competition and grades, by broadening the curriculum and by eliminating the distinction between curricular and extracurricular activities . . . Today the mood of the people has changed. There is a new stress on values and standards, on hard work and more...
...lots of fun." Says Teacher Ansley: "We aren't shoving this down the students' throats. The kids have insisted on it. They won't get any credits from these courses. They're taking them because they want to. It's a great success...
Counting on the success of the X-15, North American has proposed a beefed-up version with a booster rocket that will push it up to orbiting speed (18,000 m.p.h.). It will climb into genuine space, well above 150 miles. There will be no human pilot on the first flights. Automatic instruments will ride the winged satellite around the earth for awhile. Then, perhaps on electronic command from below, they will glide it to earth. Later, as the art develops, the first human pilot may take the same ride...
...experienced suicide within his own family, I want to thank you for your sensitive treatment of the Robert R. Young story. A working newsman, I've read enough suicide stories to perhaps grow a trifle cynical. But to such men as Young, success must be synonymous with life. The loss of success makes life unbearable. Statistics point to suicides frequently among the wealthy, often educated men and women. This indicates that money and prestige may not be answers. Suicide is a tragic parody of values gone haywire...