Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideas, hatched in a Republican politician's head and scribbled down late at night: and they're not sure--this seems to trouble them most of all--what went wrong. They founded a newspaper three years ago, voted to own it themselves, made it a commercial success, and then let "antagonisms" (says one staff writer) and "friendships and enemyships" (says another) poison their collective spirit...
...from the shared pressure to survive. It is a romantic picture, enhanced by the Real Paper's structure. This was a Staff-owned paper, reeking of egalitarianism, with practically no hierarchy at all (the masthead listed simply "The Staff," without giving titles). There were no financial angels, and the success that came quickly and steadily to the Real Paper was all the more gratifying for the way the staff...
...contradictions and ambiguities of the counterculture have been handed down as well: the tension between ideological authenticity--and commercial success, between collective work and the efficiency of command...
McDonald's officials take the direct assault with unruffled patriarchal calm. Says Public Relations Director Matt Lambert: "We couldn't be anything but pleased that their advertising stresses our success." Anyway, the fast-food battle is a three-or even four-front war. Burger King, another contender in the hamburger hassle, has funded a $3,000 "John Denker Scholarship" at the California Institute of Technology to honor a Caltech student who recently sabotaged a $47,000 McDonald's-sponsored contest. Denker found a loophole that allowed him and 25 fellow students to submit more than 1 million...
...given a patient a new heart but had left most of the old one, still beating, in place (TIME, Dec. 9). Although the world's first twin-heart patient, an engineer named Ivan Taylor, died early in April, Barnard is still satisfied that his surgical spectacular was a success. The death, he explained last week, was not directly related to the operation. Taylor died not because his body rejected the new heart but as a result of a blood clot in his lung. Up to the time of his death, his two hearts were still pumping properly...