Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bittersweet success. Menzies and Meek emerged unharmed from their 31-hour ordeal in the forward compartment, where the atmosphere had remained at about sea-level pressure. But rescuers had to leave Link and Stover (whose motionless bodies could be seen through portholes) inside the aft compartment while it was slowly depressurized; if the men were still alive, suddenly opening the hatch at sea level would have caused a possibly fatal case of bends. When the hatch was opened, the fears were confirmed: both Link and Stover had died of carbon dioxide poisoning. Heartbroken by the loss, the elder Link nonetheless...
...Ieronymos' autocratic rule and restoring the antique system of checks and balances that has kept power in the Greek Church divided among an episcopal oligarchy. Though a few of Ieronymos' supporters have asked a Greek court to declare the second Synod illegal, they stand little chance of success. Moderates now hope that the Church of Greece can get back to constructive work, which progresses slowly enough in the best of times and has been all but paralyzed since last year by the internecine warfare...
From a broker specializing in trading homes, Deffet became a builder. His success has been based on shrewd decisions about where to build, careful use of credit leverage available in real estate, and a timely merger with a paving and contracting firm. His refusal to discriminate has been no hindrance. As far back as 1963, long before federal open-housing laws existed, he was advertising each of his apartment projects as a "fair housing community, which practices open occupancy...
...life and trying to cope with it." When his engaging but minor talent began to fail, he turned to Hollywood, where his screenplay for Splendor in the Grass (1961) won an Oscar. Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1970), a novel about a woman brutally isolated from society, met with modest success. The manuscript of an other Inge novel, The Boy From the Circus, was found in his living room on the day of his death - rejected by a New York publisher...
Historic Obstacles. In all, 54 of the firms were started in the past five years, a period that coincides with the Nixon Administration's Black Capitalism program. Many of the largest firms, however, neither got nor needed Government aid. Their success, says Black Enterprise Publisher Earl Graves, is evidence that some historic obstacles to black business ownership "have been overcome, [although] others remain maddeningly as barriers to real opportunity." Only twelve of the firms are in the South; most are in New York City, Chicago, Detroit and California...