Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...willing to enter negotiations with Hanoi at any time without any conditions. Despite insistent reports from foreign officials that Hanoi is ready to talk as soon as the U.S. quits bombing the North, Goldberg noted that the Johnson Administration has repeatedly "sought such a message directly from Hanoi without success." What the U.S. wants, he said, is some assurance that a bombing pause would in fact lead to negotiations, and would not be used to hurt South Viet Nam's military position. In a rhetorical question whose wording proved practically incomprehensible even to diplomats, he asked: "Does North Viet...
...program's success has resulted from its simplicity. Whenever Ekman has proof that a landlord will not accommodate Negroes, white servicemen are forbidden to lease or rent from the property owner. Since most landlords around military bases depend almost exclusively on military occupants, Ekman's decree leaves them with little choice between integration or bankruptcy. But, says Ekman, "first we try to use persuasion. I point out that a lot of the combat leaders are Negroes. If they have to live 20 or 30 miles from the base, it is uneconomic and very bad for morale...
...love for the pinto in part determined his decision to attend Washington's Georgetown University, just a ten-minute walk from the park stables. As a freshman, he expatiated on an assigned English essay subject: "Status Symbols." "Success is the true status symbol," he wrote. To Guy, Navajo was the highest symbol, and he owned...
...French schools, that "no domain of terrestrial life must escape man's power of reason." Ever since the French left him to rule Tunisia in 1956, Bourguiba has been trying to apply reason to nation building. He has not always succeeded, but there are increasing signs of more success than failure...
...Administration will probably try to push a lottery through Congress during the next session, but success is not likely. Therefore it may have to choose between what it considers two evils: the 19-year old pool with an unfair system or the present order of oldest first. This decision will make great difference to students who have received deferments. If the 19-year old pool is used--by lottery or otherwise--then students no longer deferred will have about a 50-50 chance of being drafted in that first year and then will be placed in the pool with persons...