Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marzocchi, the occasional chairman (the anarchists' anti-authoritarian philosophy, of course, would have made any more permanent leadership intolerable): "The youth who walked out think that revolution is synonymous with insurrection. They are deluded." The anarchists finally agreed on one thing: that the conference had been a grand success. They proposed to meet again in Paris in 1971 to celebrate the centenary of the Paris Commune. In hopes for better days ahead, of course. "When capitalism crumbles, Communism crumbles with it," mused Maurice Joyeux, the official French delegate. "The two will die at each other's throats...
Home from Algiers. No one knew for sure how much El Fatah's terrorism would harden Israeli opinion against any diplomatic peace efforts by the government. Foreign Minister Abba Eban last week scored a diplomatic success of sorts by gaining the release of an Israeli Boeing 707 that had been skyjacked by El Fatah agents and held in Algiers with twelve passengers since July 23. Since in this case Israel had little bargaining leverage, it had to make a reciprocal gesture: the release of 16 imprisoned Arab terrorists...
Last week Stephens was free and living in a small, police-protected apartment somewhere in Memphis. Pleased by their success, Gipson and Friedman maintained that their exhaustive research showed that laws regulating witnesses' rights could stand improvement in many states. The more enlightened laws, they pointed out, allow written depositions from witnesses as evidence, provided that the right of cross-examination and other trial guarantees are preserved. At least in many cases, the state thus avoids having to confine the bodies of witnesses to assure the presence of their words in court...
...thought of himself as an eccentric loner, often said that his work was not intended to be beautiful, but to convey information about the occult that would be recognizable only to a few. By the quirks of history, that pronouncement adds up to a surefire formula for popular success...
...large as Japan's home islands and less than 400 miles away. Mainland Siberia is one of the world's largest reservoirs of undeveloped natural resources (see map), a fact that does not fail to impress the raw material-hungry Japanese. Russia has tried without much success to make Siberia an economically profitable territory. At the same time, Japanese businessmen have had their eyes cocked on Siberia as a place where they might make a lot of money. The Russians, however, have always resolutely tried to shut the Japanese out. That impasse has now come...