Word: successful
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Last Sunday evening the two young ladies of 47 Mt. Auburn St. removed the tables and hid the cups to make rooms for some 150 chairs and a platform for folksingers Bill Wood and Joan Baez. From the management's point of view, the evening was a success--standing room only and only one visit from Cambridge's Finest. And from the audience's somewhat partisan point of view the evening was great...
...average student in the course could read a French newspaper by the end of the year, the course would be a success," Madame Duhamel insisted. She plans to use French periodicals and recent literature next year and to lecture on contemporary France. "I think students are interested in learning about French daily life, economy, and geography; and lectures in French on these subjects would add to their knowledge of both the language and the country," she claimed...
Dinner at Home. In the wake of success, the pressures mounted. Belafonte's first psychoanalyst was a woman whose husband happened to be a writer and sometime talent agent. Says Belafonte: ''Her husband took me over." While the doctor attempted an emotional analysis. the agent applied economic therapy. Before long, Harry broke with both the analyst and the agent. Then his marriage fell apart. "I didn't know the fireside and meals every night at 6," says Harry, but Marguerite knew little else. She now has custody of their two children, Adrienne, 9, and Shari...
...reason for this shining success after so many failures is buried in Washington's jungle of bureaucracy. The firing was postponed from December to February on orders of Dr. Keith Glennan, head of the newly formed National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which took the program over from the Navy. Every detail of the launching vehicle was examined critically, but whether major changes were made is not clear. There were few changes of personnel. Long-suffering Dr. John P. Hagen, director of the Vanguard program from its beginning, remained in charge. When he reported to the House space committee...
Vanguard II was the first big success for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Encouraged and confident, NASA outlined to Congress its ambitious program for peaceful space navigation. Some of its projects: ¶ An Atlas with a single upper stage to put a 3,000-lb. satellite in orbit (available soon...