Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their first step was to vote full membership to a new applicant: Moise Tshombe, who despite his success in the difficult job of restoring order to the Congo had long been shunned in the councils of Africa. And when Tshombe entered the conference hall, his newfound friends rose from their seats and cheered. Beaming, Tshombe replied: "After four years of anarchy, the Congo sees a future that promises peace and happiness, thanks to your aid. The rebellion is over. All I can see is the socalled insurgent chiefs living abroad in hotels and acting like kings...
...Despite success, Marvin will have a hard time forsaking tough roles com pletely. "I love violence," he says, and it is ingrained. After getting bounced from eleven different prep schools, he tried war. As a Marine scout-sniper, he made 21 Pacific island landings until "some Jap bastard on Saipan" got him just below the spine; he spent 13 months learning how to move again. "You Finked Out." As an actor, he specialized in killers, but he became best known as a cop. Lieut. Ballinger of TV's M Squad. Even there he was tough-"no broads, no mother...
Despite his enormous success, Simon is driven by a nagging sense of falling behind on things; a lover of conversation, he is frequently frustrated by his inability to articulate his thoughts. He lives modestly except for his art, will search the streets for a restaurant where he can eat for $5. Despite his brief and desultory academic background, he is a great backer of education and a regent at the University of California. Most of all, in the business life that has made possible all else that he has done, Simon is alternately a disrupting influence and a force...
...higher pay that they offer, but U.S. executives soon find that it takes more than that to get along with their European help. Not that European labor is necessarily more demanding or obstinate than U.S. labor: it is merely different. The U.S. firm that wants to make a success on the Continent cannot afford to ignore the differences...
...treatment of the Faculty in the past has been dismayingly dust-coverish. But this year the little, posed picture and short inconsequential recital of facts has given way to more sophisticated profiles, both pictorially and substantively. Most writers have adopted the interview transcript technique with varying degrees of success in grace and content. But this method usually seems artifical and makes the man unreal, since it often discusses him in a vacuum. Somehow a teacher doesn't seem truly intelligent or particularly worth knowing until the author can maintain an objective tone and a critical stance. Of fifteen profiles, only...