Word: successful
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Grissom served as the little-known backup man for Shepard's historic Project Mercury flight. Five weeks later, Gus roared out of obscurity aboard Liberty Bell 7 as the second American in space. His 118-mile-high suborbital flight was a success, but the splashdown in the Atlantic ended in near-disaster when the capsule hatch inexplicably blew off, swamping Grissom inside. Gus swam from the sinking craft and was rescued by helicopter. Though he was in no way to blame for the mishap, he inevitably became known to the public as the astronaut who lost his capsule...
...lies the lesson learned in the tragic half century since the First World War. After that war our country withdrew from effective world responsibility. When aggressors challenged the peace in Manchuria, Ethiopia, and then Central Europe during the 1930's, the world community did not act to prevent their success. The result was a Second World War -- which could have been prevented...
...Outskirts. A baby-faced bantamweight of 31, Rawls prepped in the choir loft of the Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church on Chicago's South Side. In 1959, he began scuffling around the chitlin circuit, patrolling the outskirts of success with a series of recordings that at various times labeled him as a jazz, pop, gospel and even folk singer. Then, early last year, he decided to dish up some good old chitlin-style singing and sweet-talking. He invited a bunch of friends to the recording studio and recorded Lou Rawls LIVE! to their finger-popping, hand-clapping accompaniment...
...more prominence and attention than a number of others. Instead a new policy of fund-raising was adopted. Under this a number of efforts of equal standing (in terms of the attention and assistance they may expect to receive from the central administration) have now been authorized. The success of all of them is important for the University's health. Though the asking of no one of them considered in itself is frighteningly formidable, together they add up to a new, for us, stupendous goal of more than $160 million. But such is the measure of our present, immediate need...
...indicate the importance and urgency of this effort by quickly running through the principal campaigns now in progress or in prospect. (I should like to say at once, parenthetically, that a major ground for hope for success in these efforts is the quality of the alumni leadership we have been able to attract to head them. These leaders' acceptance of such responsibility testifies both to their loyalty and devotion, and to the importance of the causes they have agreed to serve...