Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Politics do not understand change. They do not grasp the new realities of American life. They do not sense the significance of emerging forces." The next ten days to two weeks, Rockefeller believes, will determine whether his unorthodox strategy has any chance of success...
...Ulbricht where it would hurt him most-restricting inter-German trade-since that would also hurt the average East German. Kurt Kiesinger's Grand Coalition is committed to a policy of trying to make life easier, not harder, for the East German population. Furthermore, because of the partial success of its new Ostpolitik, Bonn does not want to lose friends in Communist countries by appearing to be as repressive as Ulbricht...
...reason for Fry's executive success was a phenomenal memory; he knew parliamentary procedure by heart and never found a Double-Crostic puzzle that he could not solve. "He is not exactly the warmhearted shepherd," a colleague explained. "He has a tendency to kick the rumps of the sheep, rather than lead them." At one church convention, Fry was explaining a complicated motion when one delegate said: I'm not quite clear. I'm afraid I fell off at the last turn." "That's all right," Fry answered imperturbably, "I'll pick you up right...
...through the Viet Nam war, Columnist Joseph Alsop has been unwavering in his support of U.S. policy and highly optimistic about its eventual success. This stance has infuriated many liberals-all the more so because Alsop is considered to be a liberal on domestic issues. The gathering wrath finally poured out in print this month as two magazines-Harper's, and Robert Hutchins' the Center-published harsh attacks on the columnist...
What's So Bad? is the kind of fantasy comedy that depends heavily on the audience's suspension of disbelief for success. This time, disbelief is almost impossible to overcome, thanks to a clumsy script that features such antique devices as a shoe-banging Russian U.N. delegate, cliché-spouting admen and a sound track that plays The Dragnet Theme whenever the fuzz appear...