Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Water. For Bonatti, the trick now is to find new ways to climb the familiar old hills. And he had a really novel idea for the Matterhorn: a "direttissima" assault, straight up the mountain's ice-coated, practically vertical north wall, a climb that had been tried (without success) only once before-in the summer. It was, shuddered a Swiss guide, "the route that a drop of water would follow...
Precisely because the program is vague and voluntary, its success will depend primarily upon how businessmen react to it. Such industrialists as G.M.'s Donner and RCA's David Sarnoff pointed out that their companies already have favorable trade balances, thus implying that the President could expect little more from them. A number of bankers echoed the criticism made by European financial leaders that Johnson had attacked the symptoms rather than the basic causes of the deficit. They pointed out that, in a rush to beat the voluntary controls, U.S. banks have probably already exceeded...
...More Shuttle. Wachovia's success in bankrolling Southern industry has stepped up competition from New York and Boston bankers, but the bank's assets are now so considerable that Wachovia can meet practically any financing need. R. J. Reynolds officials used to shuttle to New York once a week on financing missions, but such trips are seldom necessary nowadays; they go to Wachovia. The bank's officials know their region well, and their formula for success is to stick to it. One bank officer recently had a crack at a multimillion-dollar piece of business...
...authors' explanation of the Negro disappearance from Western folklore is less satisfying. They say it is be, cause the first published western, Owen Wister's The Virginian, included no Negroes. Since the book was an extraordinary success, no one dared change a good thing. But by that time, the West was mostly legend, and the values of legend tend to black-and-white good guys and bad guys, and permit of little shading. As legend, the oldtime cowboy will go on looking like Tom Mix. History, thanks to Durham and Jones, has acquired new shadings...
While Corps officials view the substantial drop with only mild concern, some observers here fear that the Peace Corps' early success at Harvard and Radcliffe may have been only a meeting phenomenon...