Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talk, Johnson practically invented space flight. Cried the Vice President: "He has put his heart into it, his spirit into it, his hands and his mind into it. And the fact that he was the author of the space act, and not only authored it but shepherded it to success and then nourished it into fulfillment, is, I think, the real strength, the real underpinning of this program...
...allergic to visitors; all transit visas are limited to 24 hours. Burma is indubitably a sovereign state, has outlawed the Communist movement, and has signed a border agreement with Peking. Its high-stepping military, duly cheered each year on Armed Forces Day, is relatively stable and competent. With some success Burma has managed to steer a perilous neutral course between the West and China, having been helped greatly by the fact that the British withdrew in relatively good order rather than at the end of a disastrous war as the French did in Indo-China...
...Kraft, but he finds Hoover's motive in the memoirs of former Attorney General Francis Biddle: "A career man in the truest sense, he cares for power and more power; but unlike many men, it is power bent to the purpose of his life's work-the success...
...perform both academic and vocational functions. He argues strongly for continuing the present system because a combined institution is more economical and avoids a "scarring" experience for the student who otherwise might flunk out of a four-year college, then enter a technical school. Flushed with their liberal arts success, some of the nation's junior colleges are already converting to regular four-year institutions -a trend that most educators earnestly deplore, since the community college then loses its own special functions, and too often becomes merely another second-rate four-year college...
Delano estimated that over 70 percent of Harvard applicants to the Peace Corps will be accepted. Last year 125 members of the graduating class actually entered the Corps, but this was not the exact group which signed during recruiting. The success of last year's drive "astounded" Delano...