Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrived at the height of a confused situation that pitted Fidel Castro's rebel forces against a group of young revolutionary zealots who had occupied the presidential palace. Castro's men so far were resorting to persuasion. Apparently they were meeting with success, for the splinter group of revolutionaries left the palace on orders from their leaders rather than embarrass Urrutia's struggling young regime...
...Repertory group will have a permanent company of 15 actors, and its success, according to Gitter, "depends largely on the loyalty and enthusiasm of the individual members. Therefore," he continued, "they are being given a season's contract, guaranteeing them continuous employment and a succession of varied and challenging roles. The 15 were selected from a group of 300 performers we auditioned in New York...
Molotov. "He let nothing escape him that appeared spontaneous. In Molotov, who was, and wanted to be, merely a perfectly adjusted cog in an implacable machine, I thought I had identified a complete success of the totalitarian system. I could feel the melancholy...
While U.S. educators have exhorted one another to look to Russia as a shining example of scholastic success, at least one Soviet citizen has been sharply critical of his country's school system. The critic: Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who last April began grumbling that students were graduating from high school with an unmaterialistic, lily-fingered snobbery about physical labor, Marx urged that children be set to work early, the Premier told a youth congress ominously, "and that is quite correct, since only under such conditions will boys and girls appreciate the full complexity and the delights of labor...
...usually hourly paid) workers, who make up 85% of the U.S. union membership. But in the total U.S. working force, the blue-collars were outnumbered by white-collar workers (25 million to 25.5 million) by 1957, and the trend was accelerated by the recession. Unions have had comparatively little success in recruiting the new army of technical and service workers. If it does not recruit them, says Kassalow, "organized labor would be lucky to maintain its present membership of 17 or 18 million over the next decade. It would then become a very diminished minority...