Word: successful
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...cancer. No less unlikely, as a source of the promising substance, are common colon bacteria that multi ply in sewage and often result in the contamination and closing of beaches. Yet both these elements were present last week in the excitement over a procedure that has given signs of success in the case of just one cancer parent...
Since taking over in 1955 as president of Parsons, once a financially starved Presbyterian school, Roberts has methodically carried out his program for success. He increased Parsons' enrollment from 212 to 4,900, and upped student fees from $1,030 a year to $1,160 a trimester. Roberts has been able to erect $20 million worth of buildings on campus and push the average faculty pay from about $3,000 a year to more than $15,000-third highest in the nation. This year, while almost every school in the nation is running bigger deficits than ever, Parsons recently...
...vodka to Foster Grant sunglasses. Now he is completing a new nightclub act as well as a play about "a happily neurotic love affair." This summer he plans to begin work on Take the Money and Run, a new film he co-authored and will star in. Has success spoiled him? "I just fail with a better class of women now," sighs Woody, adding that Parker Bros, has bought the memoirs of his love life and will turn it into a new parlor game...
...manual labor. The more pragmatic British tapped him to revive a Wolfsburg auto factory which had been so badly bombed that, Nordhoff was later to recall, it "didn't even smell good enough for the Russians." That plant had once built Volkswagens, and Nordhoff's success in getting it back into gear has become a legend (TIME cover, Feb. 15, 1954). By last week, when he announced that he would retire as board chairman, Wolfsburg had become horns base for West Germany's biggest industry. Volkswagen ranks fourth behind only the U.S. Big Three among the world...
Eckstein served from 1964 to 1966 on the Council of Economic Advisors, the troika that yearly prepares a massive report on the state of the economy for the President. He was appointed a month ago to the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity which is studying the success of the poverty program for President Johnson...