Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less easy to see is why repression of the press and often anti-democratic maneuvers are necessary for such success. Apparently, hardworking, dedicated Adnan Menderes cares not, so long as his name goes down in Turkish history, alongside Ataturk, as Adnan the Builder...
...British Isles. Behind the news is the story of how U.S. scientists have worked for years to build accident-proofing devices into Atomic Age bombs so that they cannot be accidentally set off in a crash-or even by blasts of high explosives. Proof of the scientists' success is the fact that not one but at least four bomb-lugging U.S. aircraft have crashed without nuclearexplosions-one between Dayton and Cincinnati, one at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco, one near Albuquerque, and one over the St. Lawrence River in a midair accident in which the accident-proofed...
Factions & Finesses. Such has been the success of Democrat Docking that in county after county across the state, once hopelessly labeled by blighted Democrats as the Land of Landon, the Democratic Party is showing gaining strength, building a fresh, new organization, putting up candidates for county and municipal offices where Democrats have never had a chance. The Democrats already have one of Kansas' six congressional seats, have high hopes of gaining one or two more this November. The Republican factions are still too busy snapping at each other to find a good candidate to throw against Docking...
...dictator had little time to savor this success. Day after day, knotsof rioting students raced through downtown Caracas, burning cars and chanting "Down with Pérez Jiménez !" Petitions circulated, signed by nearly 1,000 top-rank businessmen, professional men and artists, demanding an end to the police state. Against the demonstrators, the cops used the strongman's best brand of brutal force. But despite hundreds of arrests, school closings and screams of pain echoing through Security Police headquarters, Pérez Jiménez could not still the civilian unrest. At week's end reports...
...seemed to have a fairchance of breaking even. Attendance (at 95?a head) for the first two days of the ten-day show: 6,942. Total picture sales: $15,175. At least the show had demonstrated the widespread, brush-in-hand U.S. interest in painting. With reasonable success in 1958, it might become a revealing annual event...