Word: successful
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Both the book and the film version of The Shop on Main Street were flops in Czechoslovakia, undoubtedly because of the guilty consciences of the people depicted. They chose to ignore the book and to walk out of the movie in mid-performance. Only the success of the film in the U.S. has changed this lethargy into a willingness at least to accept the honors...
From the moment De Gaulle arrived, everything pointed to success for the visitor from Paris. What with his defeat at the North Rhine-Westphalia polls fortnight ago and the constant badgering of the "Gaullist" wing of his party, Erhard presumably felt it was no time to give his enemies grounds for charging him with gumming up relations with France. In any case, he gave De Gaulle a reception that was far beyond what protocol requires for an ordinary working visit. Honor guards and anthems were in profusion, and Erhard's luncheon toast was especially cordial...
Opportunity Broadens. Wall Street is leary of the movie industry because it so often soars and dips on hit movies or bombs. In spite of success, United's price-earnings ratio has stayed low, and its opportunity to grow has been hampered. Now, with financial backing from stronger Consolidated, it will be able to explore such fields as television, books, magazines and music publishing. Under the Cummings system of decentralized management, moreover, United's old team will continue to run the motion-picture business. All Cummings will have to do, he hopes, is count the earnings and perhaps...
...short, the overall success of the concert was beyond a doubt, the only problems being those built-in flaws in the music...
...Russians were hardly in a mood to greet British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who flew into town at week's end. As was Mrs. Gandhi's, Wilson's mission was peace in Viet Nam; and for his own political reasons, he was desperately hoping for success. Doubtless, in the back of his mind was the need for a diversion from the economic trouble at home (see WORLD BUSINESS). For all his negotiating skill, Wilson could hardly have expected much as his Comet4 jet touched down in Moscow. The Kremlin had made it amply clear that...