Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with an agreement designed to avert nuclear Armageddon. Truman described it as "the one purpose that dominated me." Eisenhower called his failure to make any progress in the disarmament field "one of my major regrets." Kennedy's efforts to "get the genie back in the bottle" had some success in 1963's limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and he considered it one of his greatest achievements. Now, in the waning months of his presidency, Lyndon Johnson can take satisfaction from a comparable feat-and can claim credit for having set the stage for another that could prove even...
...very magnitude of their first-round success made the Gaullists worry that their supporters might grow complacent about the final round of balloting. In an effort to persuade them not to flit off to the country and the beaches on vacation instead of staying around to vote, the Gaullists kept up the pressure. "Do not relax! The battle is not yet won," exhorted Pompidou. "Finish them off; yes finish off those who are in the camp of revolution and negativism." At weeks end, in a final appeal for support Charles de Gaulle spoke to the French on television and radio...
...move fast and throw cordons around North Vietnamese in filtrating the area. They will also substitute aggressive reconnaissance patrols for the blocking role formerly held by Khe Sanh and the hill outposts that surrounded it, which are now also being abandoned. The technique has already had some success: Marine units south of Khe Sanh have interdicted a new infiltration road and killed hundreds of North Vietnamese...
Impressed by the success of student protests elsewhere, Rio's students began their own demonstrations and disorders two months ago. Their discontent has focused on Education Minister Tarso Dutra, a weak administrator whom Costa refuses to replace under pressure. Two weeks ago, students shouting "Down with Dictatorship" marched on Dutra's Le Corbusier-designed administration building to "confront" him. Before they got there, two platoons of police cut them off with tear gas and an antiriot hose truck. The students retreated from street corner to street cor ner, waving clubs disguised in rolled-up newspapers and regrouping each...
...they had spent $75 million improving and fireproofing the lunar command ship. And apart from some unexpected itching from the astronauts' new flameproof space suits, and a temporary breakdown of the huge vacuum testing chamber, the modified capsule's first full-fledged ground test was an unqualified success...