Word: successful
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Atlanta tries "Junior Sheriffs" to keep their buddies out of trouble, and Chicago has "Operation Save" to encourage residents to report vandals to police-so far without remarkable success...
More than anything else, the current talk of stalemate in Viet Nam stems from the disparity in the progress of the two wars. In the big-unit war that is being fought largely by U.S. troops, success is real and measurable. In a long string of aggressive campaigns stretching back to the first major U.S. North Vietnamese battle in the la Drang Valley in 1965, American fighting men time and again bested Hanoi's best; they have prevented the Communists from getting a major offensive of their own under way. The combat toll in Red manpower, Hanoi's most precious...
...that they might not. Eventually, the jungle colloquium worked out an important new tactic: the use of bunkers manned by a small force to screen main-force units and inflict casualties on U.S. infantrymen while the main-force fighters escaped. The Communists have been using that tactic with considerable success ever since. Last month, for example, a company of the U.S. 173rd Airborne ran into a small group of Red soldiers and gave chase. The pursuit led them into a crossfire of massed machine guns concealed in 30 sandbagged bunkers; 25 Americans were killed and another 35 wounded...
...success of the faculties of pedagogy in graduating a large proportion of students preparing for careers as secondary school teachers is an encouraging sign. Since this represents a joint effort between the government and the universities, it means that such cooperation can help to reduce deficiencies of national need. Agriculture, the various fields of engineering education and business and public administration need to be elevated to university status. Moreover, the universities need new programs and reorientation of their methods of selecting students to avoid the waste of manpower which occurs through duplication of effort and the lack of articulated purposes...
...From the students' points-of-view it is a more orderly transition to higher education that provides a necessary period of exploration of the career possibilities of university training. From the points-of-view of faculties, it provides an important basis on which to estimate the probabilities of the success of individual students in particular programs such as law, medicine, architecture, dentistry, and pharmacy...