Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short term military success, Morgenthau said, would give the Chinese an excuse to expand as liberators of American Colonialism. The threat of Communism, he concluded, has blinded the U.S. to the possibility of directing revolutions instead of fighting them...
Assaults on the resolution from left and right met with little success...
...ours was the prophesy, theirs was the message come true. For us now to turn our backs on their achievement, to dilute our applause with sanctimonious reprimands, to become a stern father to our own abused child would be to cry sour grapes at the success of our ends, but the failure of our means...
Severe Blow. For one thing, the plan's success depends on shifting 600,000 workers from agriculture, mining, transport, aircraft, textiles and footwear into such growing fields as education, engineering, construction, public and other services. Even in the unlikely event that so many workers could be peace fully persuaded to shift jobs, the planners foresee a manpower shortage of 200,000 workers. To overcome that, they ask tradition-bound labor and industry to team up to boost the country's growth in output per man from its present 3% to 3.4% a year...
Bavaria's Hans Glas, which built its success on the tiny, utilitarian Goggomobil, displayed a flashy new luxury coupé that has the sleek, low lines of Italy's Lancia, does 125 m.p.h. and costs $4,500. Daimler-Benz introduced a new Mercedes, the 250 S, which still bears a strong family resemblance but is longer, lower and rounder. Italy was represented by a glittering array of high-priced Ferraris, Maseratis and Alfa Romeos as well as by the nimble, lower-priced Fiats. As always, the Rolls-Royce exhibit drew large crowds. They may have been looking...