Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California, tens of thousands of men pick grapes for a living. About half of them are migrants, every year making the route through Texas, Arizona, California, and Oregon, picking whatever is in season. The rest are full-fledged Californians. They work eight months a year and try, usually without success, to get welfare for the other four. About three-quarters of these farmers are Mexican-Americans; the remainder are Oakies, Philippinos, and Negroes...
...Cornfeld's success mounted, so did protests. In the U.S., the Securities and Exchange Commission got after him last year on the grounds that his activities violated American law. He finally settled with the SEC by agreeing to stop selling Fund of Funds shares to Americans, limit holdings in U.S. funds, and sell off Investors Planning Corp., a mutual-fund sales firm that I.O.S. purchased in 1965 for $2,000,000. Cornfeld claims to be happy the way things turned out. American clients account for only 3% of l.O.S.'s business anyway-and Cornfeld figures to unload Investors...
...five gothic novels, she probed soul-deep into a misbegotten Dixie brood and found both depravity and innocence. Her characters ranged from Frankie Addams, tremulous near womanhood in The Member of the Wedding, to brutish Amelia Evans in The Ballad of the Sad Café. After reaching overnight success in 1940 with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, she was beset by gradual paralysis, but kept writing-until, as it did for the dying pharmacist in her last novel, her own "clock without hands" ran down...
...applicant's having had psychiatric treatment is no guide to predicting his success or failure in college, Farnsworth continued...
...central determinant of success, he said, "is whether or not the applicant has the intellectual capacity to do the work required of him and the emotional maturity and motivation to use his intelligence effectively...