Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomatic report card also was mixed. His decision to go ahead with the Congo air-rescue operation was diluted by its tardiness and by the fact that the mission was halted prematurely. To his credit, he attempted to restore peace to Cyprus, even though the prospects of success were slight. The effort failed, but only after Under Secretary of State George Ball gave the island's Archbishop Makarios a dressing down worthy of Lyndon himself. "For God's sake, Your Beatitude," Ball scolded the archbishop, "this killing must stop...
...approval for an electrification project in his Tenth District, but found that every time he got into the oval office, Roosevelt dominated the conversation and waved him out before he had a chance to make his pitch. It is a technique that Johnson has since emulated with great success. In any case, Lyndon learned that Roosevelt was a sucker for photos of dams, brought along a batch of big glossy prints the next time he saw him. Sure enough, Roosevelt was entranced, picked up the phone while Johnson was still sitting there, and got the wheels moving. The resulting Pedernales...
...going to manufacture anything, you ought to have the finest plant and facilities." But the heavy financial investments needed to create such an entity would be for nought without a special flair for sensing what is acceptable to the public-for that, ultimately, accounts for success in the entertainment world. This Lew Wasser man has to a unique degree, and it has helped him bring Hollywood back from the margin of extinction...
Wastepaper Figures. "Strange," wrote Beckmann in his diary in 1947, "that in every city I always hear the lions roar." He loved the street-scene turmoil and crammed his major canvases with crowds of jostling, uncongenial characters. Son of a Leipzig flour merchant, Beckmann was already a success at the age of 30 when World War I broke out. To avoid killing, he volunteered for the medical corps. Still, the constant exposure to slaughter, which he often drew, punctured his optimism so destructively that 30 years later he wondered if war had wounded his soul...
...well-known foreign products: Perrier Mineral Water, Harvey's sherries, Rose's Lime Juice, Irish Mist Liqueur, Guinness Stout. In its four plants it now makes vodka, gin, mixed cocktails, a line of liqueurs and several food products, including a breakfast cereal called Maypo. Through acquisitions, the success of its products and some high-powered promotion, the company has boosted its sales from $37 million a decade ago to a record $136 million in the last fiscal year. Its boss is John G. Martin, 59, the British-born grandson of one of the original Heubleins, who owns...