Word: successful
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Words & Action. While Police Superintendent Orlando Wilson has earned nationwide acclaim for his success in reforming a force long noted for corruption, he has found it no easy task to instill the cop on the beat with a respect for minorities. "There is very, very big resentment of the police out there," says the Rev. Donald Headley, head of the Cardinal's Committee for the Spanish Speaking in Chicago.* "The attitude of the policeman to the Puerto Ricans has been very...
...know how far we can go. . . It's their function to be the best." But excellence is not enough to make a hero, nor is willingness to challenge the odds; those qualities may merely add up to leadership. "Heroism should not be confused with strength and success," says Author John Updike. "Our concept of the hero must be humanized to include the ideas of sacrifice and death, even of failure." The hero also must touch people's emotions. In modern jargon, that means someone who "turns people...
...decades they have piled up new suc cesses almost every time the nation has gone to the polls. In 1963's national election, for example, the Reds picked up 1,000,000 additional votes - which led them to feel that they had every reason to expect heightened success in last week's 171 municipal and provin cial elections. As it happened, the Com munists were due for a disappointment...
...tributed to a chronic trade deficit, which last month increased 14% from the April level. The British appear to care more about mod than money. Mourned Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan: "It seems we are talking to those who are deaf. In the end, the government cannot achieve success. Only the country can do that...
...their schoolbooks is another question. After all, Hot Rod is something of a technical journal; reading it requires quite a bit of a guy's time. And because so many readers are anxious to give it their time, Robert Petersen has cannily capitalized on the pattern of its success. He has brought out nearly a dozen similar magazines and has become a millionaire ten times over. At 39, he is the sole owner of one of the largest U.S. publishing companies west of the Rockies...