Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whether Italian voters, with their country's traditional center-left politics at a point of impasse, are prepared finally to allow the Communists to share national power. If the voters are ready for that-and chances are strong that they are-it will mark the first major Communist success in Western Europe in 30 years...
Kissinger has repeatedly warned that the presence of Communists in NATO--member governments is unacceptable. The threat of American intervention, whether diplomatic, economic, or military, is the most serious obstacle to the potential success of the historic compromise. In the face of militant American disapproval and sanctions, menanced by CIA infiltration and influence, Italians understandably fear that their country may become another Chile. Their fears are well supported by the American press, judging from a recent Newsweek cover. America already considers Italy another Vietnam...
Stewart said the committee was united in its view of the success of equal access...
...THERE IS anything different about Ridin' High from his previous efforts, it is that the hard edge of bitterness and scorn that sometimes sliced through the genial flamboyance is gone. Success has made Walker a little more easygoing, a little less mean. He no longer spits at the respectable people, as he did in the liner notes of his first major album, Jerry Jeff Walker. Describing two people who were the subject of one song, "Curly and Lil," he wrote, "Their warmth, independence, and self-respect prove to all those pussys who had to 'think of the kids...
...doubles teams had much more success than the singles teams. Team captain Lissa Muscatine and Denise Thal, the fourth-seeded team, reached the semi-finals, where they were knocked off by the first-seeded team of Terry Carp and Lynn McLanahan of Princeton, 6-2, 7-5. Carp and McLanahan won the doubles tournament, downing Yale's Cynthia Hayden and Anne Seidler...