Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrat Adlai Stevenson's brief trip through the Republican State Department was marked with good intentions on both sides. But the final outcome, whoever was at fault, could hardly contribute to the success of the NATO conference. No sooner had Stevenson issued his refusal than NATO observers in Europe, figuring he was trying to avoid again being associated with failure, began reading into it a sign that U.S. expectations for the Paris sessions were gloomy...
...agree to the essentials of a plan for sharing power between the parties. The truce, giving promise of responsible civilian government in the future, played an important role when the present caretaker military junta took over from Rojas Pinilla last May. Last week's plebiscite certified the success of Lleras' long effort...
...Startling and still unexplained success has been achieved with iproniazid against angina pectoris, the recurrent pain that afflicts many victims of coronary artery disease. Mexico City's Dr. Teodoro Cesarman was most enthusiastic, reported complete relief after one to three weeks' treatment in 62 cases. One man, incapacitated for eight years, who had taken up to 20 tablets of nitroglycerin a day, lost his pain, began climbing stairs, and walked a mile without distress. U.S. and Swiss specialists reported good though less dramatic results...
...surprisingly little-known man, even in the communities he served. "Although he owned the Times for 30 years," said a Hartford Timesman, "if he walked through the business section it is doubtful whether two people would have recognized him." But one measure of Frank Gannett's success was the fact that his papers last week ran their own staff-written editorials on their publisher's death...
SLIDING-SCALE INSURANCE, on which the premium payments go down as the size of the policy goes up, is proving a fast success. Milwaukee's Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. pioneered the idea early in 1957, did so well that it will extend sliding scale to all existing policies of $5,000 or more...