Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Milbourne Christopher, a recognized experton Houdini, points out that the key to the Escape King's success was challenge: "His reputation was always on the line." Locksmiths, jailers and packing-box makers all came to test his powers, convinced that they had a lock or a crate that could hold him. He defeated them all, but there was always the possibility that he might fail...
...Houdini's success was based on more than defiance of the establishment; he seemd to defy fate itself. In 1916, for instance, Houdini narrowly escaped from a box buried six ft. underground. (Once free, he had to dig his way to the surface.) Another of his death-defying tricks was the Chinese Water Torture Cell: padlocked by the ankles in a glass-fronted water tank, Houdini hung upside down, but would make his escape within harrowing minutes. (He did not die doing this stunt, despite the efforts of Hollywood producers to make people think...
...week's end Carter turned a successful threeday, six-stop westward trip into a campaign to inspire grass roots support for his program. In Michigan, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado and California, Carter seized every chance he could find to hammer home the point that nothing less than the economic and military security of the nation rested on the fate of his energy legislation. He also placed his own prestige on the line, declaring at one point: "I have equated the energy policy legislation with either success or failure of my first year in office as a leader of our country...
...tale of two suburbs: signs of failure and success...
...many communities, racial integration is a worthy but difficult goal, a challenge to the foresightedness and ingenuity of their civic leaders. Rather than waiting for the courts to prescribe remedies for segregation, more predominantly white communities are trying to take the initiative and integrate themselves-with varying success. Two current and contrasting examples: Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, where an advertising campaign to promote voluntary integration shows all the signs of failure, and the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, where urban specialists gathered earlier this month to study a promising local program...