Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gardner ("Mike") Cowles was traveling through darkest Africa last February when he bumped into an old acquaintance: U.S. Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood. Seizing the opportunity, Cowles offered Attwood a job as editorial director of Cowles publications. Attwood was hesitant about accepting; he had scored a distinct success in Kenya, as he had earlier in Guinea, by practicing a quiet, cheerful diplomacy, by never forcing his views on Africans and by always listening to theirs. He had even survived a bad bout of polio and returned to the job as zestful as ever...
...York there's only air pollution." But to 33-year-old Bachelor Stevenson, who has already dabbled in Wall Street (Lazard Freres), educational films, Caribbean real estate, and an unsuccessful antique-car rental service, Cheetah is "an investment that I know will be a success." To reporters he elaborated: "I'm not a nightclub man, and the music drives me out of my mind, but I have inordinately good taste." Did he feel he was cashing in on his father's name? "Only the narrow-minded would say that. I think Dad would have enjoyed...
This season the quartet's eleven concerts in Philadelphia drew near-sellout crowds. Following their success in Manhattan last week, the de Pasquale brothers had only one regret. Said Joseph: "If only Dad could have heard us. He would have popped his buttons...
...shaped rows of seats, and begins to toss out pointed questions in a disarmingly gentle voice. He poses, for example, the problem of how three older men feel when a boss promotes a youngster over them. To a student who argues that feelings don't matter, only success does, Athos says crisply: "I would like to suggest that you talk an ideology that you do not practice?even in this classroom." To another: "You think that the boss knows what he's doing because you identify with the boss, as you do in every other case." To a third...
...Undress a chic woman," says Perma Lift bras, undressing one partially for most of a page, "and what do you see?" Chrysler equates its cars with amorous success. And Howard clothes boasts that it makes clothes "for men who make love" and "men who make babies...