Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a quarter of a century since a shy blonde out of Jamestown, N. Dak., named Peggy Lee (real name: Norma Egstrom) sang that lament with Benny Goodman's band. She did right-and made plenty money. The intervening years have brought her smash-hit records (Lover, Fever), success as a songwriter (Mañana, It's a Good Day), an Academy Award nomination as an actress (Pete Kelly's Blues), ardent fans (ranging from Duke Ellington to Rudolf Nureyev), and top nightclub engagements at $25,000 a week. They have also brought her serious illness...
...opening program dealt with Dr. Charles R. Drew, holder of three degrees in medicine, who developed the blood-bank techniques. Following his success in heading the 1940 "Blood for Britain" project, Drew was picked for a similar job by the American Red Cross because it wanted "the best man, not the best white man," only to discover that, by a supreme irony, the blood would have to be racially segregated. The program also pointed up Drew's less public but equally important work as a superlative teacher of surgery at Howard University...
...second reasons for focusing on local issues is that it provides the best chance for successful student activism. Success is what will prevent the new activist from becoming a pure radical. For if it is possible to effect basic change in the University, the society can't be all that bad. Success would provide some hope and some rationale for staying within society, and working for change through the established channels...
...business of wholesale and wide spread resistance and dislocation of the American society," he proclaimed shortly before Dellinger's return from the Bratislava conference. Dellinger subsequently agreed that the aim of the Washington march would be to "shut down the Pentagon." Remembering the success that attended the Mob's peaceful antiwar marches last April, when 180,000 well-mannered dissidents in San Francisco and New York gave protest a more tolerable name, moderate members from the more firmly established peace groups threatened to pull out unless Dellinger and Rubin toned down...
...Committee for Solidarity with the American People." Its aim: to cheer on the dissenters and encourage desertion among American and South Vietnamese troops. Said a message to the Mob from North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong: "The Vietnamese people thank their friends in America and wish them great success in their mounting movement...