Word: successful
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...course, has not been lost. The proportion of the nation officially listed as living in poverty has dropped since 1959 from 22% to 12%. One of America's great success sagas has been the rise of many blacks to the secure middle class. Today 44% of black families earn $10,000 or more a year. More than 45% of black high school graduates now go on to college. Though some discrimination persists, more and more nonwhites are seen in at least the junior management ranks of banks and corporations and government, where they are moving...
TIME Associate Editor Frederic Golden has just written a book, Colonies in Space (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $8.95), dealing with the next step the success of the Enterprise may lead to. Golden predicts the first space colony by the year 2001. An odd date, that: just one year after the new treaty gives Panama control of the canal...
...political and diplomatic success, Torrijos may find himself in trouble if he fails to improve economic conditions for the mass of Panama's 1.7 million citizens. Primarily mestizos (of mixed-blood descent), the Panamanians earn an average of $1,180 per year, one of the highest per capita incomes in Latin America. But much of that wealth is in the hands of rabiblancos (rich financiers) or Mercedes-driving urban entrepreneurs who live in the flashy high-rise condominiums of Panama City...
Casually dressed, easy of manner, Arledge exudes the smell of success the way Joe Namath exudes Brut. Arledge is a restless competitor (when Son of Sam was caught, Arledge spent the night at police headquarters). He is also a confident gambler. He gambled millions on the 1976 Olympics, and made that sprawling assortment of track meets, wrestling and swimming contests a prime-time commercial success. Chronology and coherence may have been sacrificed as he zeroed in on the flashiest contests and concentrated on popular favorites, switching relentlessly from one arena to another, but the result was exciting television. Arledge liked...
...encouraged him to become a performer, and when he returned from Germany he started a routine there at a little club. In 1963 he went to New York City and cabarets in Greenwich Village. He wanted to be like Bill Cosby, the first black comedian to achieve national success. As he remembers, he said to himself: "Goddamn it. This nigger's doin' what I'm fixin' to do. I want to be the only nigger. Ain't no room for two niggers...