Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elections nonetheless mark a new point of departure in American politics. They answer at least in part the growing demands of moderate Negro leaders like the Urban League's Whitney Young to "give us some victories" to offset the revolutionary preachings of black extremists. Even more important, the success of Stokes and Hatcher underscores an important new stage in the Negro's political evolution. Neither of the new mayors fits the traditional mold of the ghetto politician, seeking and getting solely Negro support and campaigning principally on racial issues in the style of Adam Clayton Powell...
Michael S. Horn, coach of the Radcliffe sailing team, cited Miss Chalmers' extensive experience and the sudden appearance of Miss Fransson as an outstanding skipper as the major reasons for Radcliffe's success...
...second-division round-robin begins. Dartmouth, smarting from its humiliation at New Haven, comes to Baker Field intent on victory. The Indians are weaker and the Lions are stronger than last year when Dartmouth won, 56-14, and Columbia's Marty Domres should have a fair measure of success against the Green's crippled secondary; but the final will run 31-14, Dartmouth...
...pretend to. When we must put the great affairs of life in another man's hands, we almost always turn to the mature-even the fatherly-image." Royster has grown to appreciate the relatively peaceful Eisenhower presidency. "If there was one secret to President Eisenhower's political success-and it certainly was a secret from most of the political writers-it was the fact that the country just felt comfortable with...
...their feet for mercy, the inmates turn their backs on him. Luke, played by Newman with his customary cocky resilience, has one more race up his sleeve, steals a truck when the guards casually turn their backs on him, and zooms off. Chain Gang showed Paul Man failing with success-he made good his escape, but turned to crime to stay alive. Paul Newman succeeds by failing. His end is tragic, but he again becomes a folk hero to the men he leaves behind...