Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latter. "Call it anything you like," he says, "community development, civic action, rural reconstruction, revolutionary development. It boils down to offering a better life to the peasant." That, as the Johnson Administration emphasized in the Honolulu Declaration of February 1966, may ultimately prove the only formula for success in Viet Nam as well...
...success of last week's national elections in South Viet Nam showed in remarkable fashion that the U.S.'s determined moves there have accomplished far more than a military standoff of the Communists. They have not only stiffened the spirit of the South Vietnamese but-what is less noticed in the national preoccupation with the war-they have created a new atmosphere of hope and confidence throughout Asia's southern crescent of nations, shoring up and strengthening Red China's fearful neighbors from Pakistan and India to Japan and South Korea. In this new atmosphere, usually...
...Cleveland Museum of Art meets most elements of that prescription. Traveling 14,000 miles a year, he metaphorizes his annual buying foray into a military campaign: "One begins with strategy, continues with tactics, ends with responses to local situations." And, he might have added, measures his success-and ultimately that of his museum-by the trophies brought back from the battlefields of back rooms, auction houses and dealer-wheelings from Ipswich to Istanbul...
What makes her success even more remarkable is that Margaret Sanger was no tough-talking, mannish feminist. Even when she wore severely tailored suits to appear more formidable, she could not conceal her obvious femininity. She was a radiant, vivacious redhead, scarcely 5 ft. tall, who left scores of suitors in her wake...
...Losers. There are some exceptions to the success story. The 7¾-mile Chicago Skyway has been unable to meet its interest payments on time; the free, federally sponsored Dan Ryan Expressway runs a parallel route, so Chicago Skyway traffic is about half of what was estimated. In West Virginia, a turnpike from Charleston (pop. 85,000) to Princeton (pop. 20,000 and not to be confused with Princeton, N.J.) runs "from nowhere to nowhere," according to critics. The route is losing money because the links with Interstate 64 and Interstate 77 will not be completed until approximately...