Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's smallest aircraft carrier. Constructed from pipes and a 16-ft. by 16-ft. steel mat (total cost: $300), the helicopter landing pad was fitted atop the foredeck of a 56-ft. Armored Troop Carrier, a standard craft in the Riverine fleet. The device was an immediate success, and in the past year eleven more have been rigged...
Cuban Revolutionary Che Guevara spent the last year of his life trying without success to topple the government of Bolivia. Ironically, Che has come close to doing in death what he could not achieve in life. Last week the 14-man Cabinet of Bolivia's President René Barrientos resigned in the embarrassed furor following the leak of Che's diary to his old boss, Fidel Castro...
...going to school, making it through college, getting engaged, marrying, succeeding at a job? The rather lame answer can only be that, here and there, more black faces are beginning to appear in society and business columns of a few newspapers scattered across the country. But where Negro success makes surefire copy is between the covers of Ebony magazine...
...colored boy." The White welfare agent keeps a constant check on whether the Black father is coing home nights. This splits the Black family just as it's been split since the late 1500's and early 1600's. So it seems that "Whitie" is a chief symbol of success while little Black children are being robbed of a strong Black male figure to look up to. Destroying the Black man's image in his home and community has not been enough for "Whitie." Now his White Vietnam war is jeopardizing the Black man's total existence. "Mass Black Genocide...
Sadly, their encouragement is such that they refuse to ask hard questions--like what happens if public bonds for ghetto investment achieve only modest success in money markets. They have also refused to grapple with the obvious pitfalls of turning over power and authority normally residing in Washington to the state capitals. De-centralization is a good vote-getting phrase. Once operative, though, it may make a bigger mess than the one in Washington...