Word: successful
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...Museum of Modern Art in January 1955 and which was seen by more than 9,000,000 people in 69 countries. All through his long career, it was very largely Steichen who implanted photography indelibly in the public's consciousness as an art. The results of his success are still becoming apparent...
...partly because they are eager to seize on any issue to harry the Gaullists in the wake of their recent election success, union leaders and left-wing politicians are backing the students. The student demands are not uniform, but most seem to want all youths to be able to choose any year between 18 and 25 for their military service...
...investigator in the field is Psychologist Neal Miller of Manhattan's Rockefeller University, who has had spectacular though temporary success in teaching a victim of serious hypertension to lower her blood pressure at will. (He points out, however, that similar efforts with other patients have failed.) At Topeka's Menninger Foundation, Psychologist Elmer Green is regularly successful in alleviating migraine headaches by teaching patients to increase the blood flow to their hands (as yet, he cannot explain why this works). Green has also tested Swami Rama, an Indian yogi who demonstrated his ability to stop his heart...
...McMurtry, Deck is a questioning innocent, emerging from a stultifying Texas atmosphere (which at the same time he can't help loving), while also trying to find his personal identity. It's the classic American unsatisfying-success story. You finally escape from the conglomerate of emotional inputs you call home, but you find that the big world isn't that different. If Danny hops from state to state and bed to bed, what he really needs is a mother. (All McMurtry gives him is a father who has just about disowned him, and a bunch of brothers who ignore...
...fighters, working for promoter Sam Silverman, were George Green of the Bronx, N.Y., and Jose Pagan Rivera of Lowell. One member, dallying over his apertif, said the fight was a "smashing success." Rivera took the decision...