Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject of much conversation for more than three months that first year. A law student vanished from his room, and the only clue was his neatly folded jacked found alongside the Charles. The neatness precluded violence, and for 145 hours the police dragged the river, with no success. His description was published, and reports filtered in from allover the country -- he was seen in Maryland, he was seen selling magazines in Virginia. But these reports proved to be only visions, for three months later two boys on an icebreaker found his body in the frozen Charles...
...kick in the pants." Trouble was, Cindy, 36, kicked too hard. To bankroll the foundation's initial production of Handel's Julius Caesar last year, Kemper & Co. put the muscle on some 50 well-heeled friends to raise $140,000. The opera was a widely acclaimed success, but local cultural groups resented Cindy's steamrolling fund-raising tactics, and especially the insinuation that no other cultural enterprise in the city measured up to the foundation's self-proclaimed "standards of excellence...
MOUNT ST. MARY'S COLLEGE (Calif.) Dorothy Buffum Chandler, D.H., Los Angeles civic leader. Her great success in making real the concern of a lifetime which culminated in the incomparable music center...
Lawrence F. O'Brien, LL.D., Postmaster General of the U.S. The postman always rings twice. It is no exaggeration to credit the success of two presidential campaigns largely to your organizational genius...
...Mike Shannon. "They're the two best pitches in the league. But Marichal has more. He has four or five-and he can control them all." Shannon hasn't seen the half of it: Juan has 13 pitches (see diagram), and one of the keys to his success is that he exhibits no particular fondness for any of them. "You can't anticipate him," explains Outfielder Frank Robinson, late of Cincinnati and currently of the Baltimore Orioles, who freely admits that he is happy to be playing in the American League-where he is batting...