Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friendliness. Dwight Eisenhower, the world's best-known, most respected statesman, lifted personal prestige and national influence to new highs from Rome to New Delhi to Paris. But equally as important as the President himself was the backdrop of popular reaction to his visits. His trip was a success because the American idea is a success; he had once and for all destroyed the myth that anti-Americanism prowls the world. The roaring welcomes defined no new world view of the U.S.; what they did was to dramatize the fact that the world likes an Americanism which...
...Government, continued Douglass, cannot improve the health and economies of other countries "and at the same time disown all responsibility for the population problem which success on these fronts greatly accentuates." The Roman Catholic Church is "staging a desperate delaying action" in "a battle which it knows is already lost. It knows that millions of faithful Catholics disregard its prohibitions in the practice of contraception, and do this with a clear conscience...
...hormones, Schering had only $3,000,000 in annual sales when the Government confiscated the company in 1942, and put Francis Brown, then a young Government attorney, in charge. The Government sold the company for $29 million in 1952, and within five years its yearly net exceeded that. But success was not guaranteed. A year after the stock went on the market at $17.50, it dropped to $11 before the company developed a cortisone-type drug. Then it found two, prednisolone and prednisone. Today, counting splits, the stock is selling...
POEMS, by Boris Pasfernak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. No poet has ever with entire success hurdled the barrier of translation, yet it is plain in this first comprehensive Pasternak collection that the creative push is there, the unique vision that separates the poet from the poetaster...
Helen Hayes and Patty Duke repeat (in a new production) One Red Rose for Christmas, Paul Horgan's 1958 success about a mother superior and an orphan...