Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico's Gustavo Diaz Ordaz went on the radio as soon as he returned home to stress that Latin America must bear the chief responsibility for its own future. Said President Fernando Belaunde Terry to his fellow Peruvians: "The declaration of Punta del Este is only the score. Success will depend on how we play...
...Princeton, he chose Chicago because he plans to become a doctor and has a high opinion of its medical school. His two scholar ships, a National Merit Scholarship and an Illinois State Scholarship, will pay him a total of $2,500 a year. George credits much of his success to Parker Teacher Frank Ragland, who set up a non-credit "special activities" class for 30 students, drilled them on math and vocabulary. "He worked us to death," recalls George. "He also told us how things were opening up for Negro students in universities. We doubted him at first-but everything...
...collector and rebuilder of limp companies, California Industrialist Norton Simon owns an unrivaled record of success. From the tomato-paste base of his Hunt Foods, he has strung together an empire of two dozen corporations from publishing (McCall Corp.) to soft drinks (Canada Dry) to containers (Knox Glass). Almost every company that Simon has bought into has prospered and he has hung on to all of his major acquisitions...
While unfamiliar to Americans, computerized shopping is not completely new in Europe. It has been tried without notable success by smallish markets in Normandy and Sweden, and at least one big Swedish food chain has rejected electronic shopping. "Our customers wouldn't enjoy running around collecting cards instead of merchandise," says Paul Brundin of Gothenburg's Turitz & Co. "Shopping should...
...success at Delaware converted one fort of academia, increased the stature of Mrs. Wood as a reading instructor, and added legitimacy to the concept of Reading Dynamics. But it had little effect on the majority of reading scholars. Some, however, recognized a real potential at least for some scholars. One nationally-known scholar formerly of the traditional school of reading recently remarked, "I have a growing suspicion that this is a different way of reading. It is devolving a capacity to use multiple as well as sequential channel functions. It is a creative process, something like the dream process, rather...