Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian Herter. U.K.'s Selwyn Lloyd, France's Maurice Couve de Murville. Russia's Andrei Gromyko-who were in Washington to attend the funeral of John Foster Dulles. In a pointed warning to Gromyko, Ike told the Big Four that he hoped for enough "measure of success" at Geneva to make a Russia-coveted summit conference "desirable and useful...
...Success After Failure. Such recognition of legislative skill has been a long time coming, and to Halleck an agonizingly hard time. Whipped by a furious ambition, he has shaped his life toward national political leadership. Time and again he suffered setbacks. At one point, frustrated beyond endurance, he withdrew from his friends, took on Scotch as his closest companion, even talked of quitting Congress. Yet in the ambition that drives him and in the absolute determination not to fail again lies the key to Charlie Halleck's success as legislative leader...
Nothing did stop them-in places. In the battle's first hours, between 0015 and 0900, the Allies won three quick successes. On the left flank the British 6th Airborne Division achieved complete tactical surprise, wiped out German positions east of the Orne River. On the right flank the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, although badly scattered in the airdrop, outfought three German divisions, suffering 2,500 casualties. Shielded by this U.S. airborne success, the U.S. 4th Infantry Division swept ashore soon after the first light on Utah Beach, swamped the defenses at a cost of only...
Shepard's teachers pleaded crowded classrooms and the children's poverty. But Shepard was tired of excuses. Drive, desire and ambition, he snapped, are as much a part of school success as native ability. He called parents together in meeting after meeting prescribed homework and more homework, sparked them to want to boost their children's grades. If parents were too uneducated to help with studies, he said frankly, they could at least buy dictionaries and give children a place to work. "Integration didn't put us in too good a light," he told the parents...
...wealthy patron or two. Nowadays, what with foundation grants, teaching jobs, formal contests and informal cocktail party juries, the business is a lot more complicated. In the A.C.A. (American Composers Alliance) Bulletin, Iowa-born Composer Lockrem Johnson (A Letter to Emily) offers a sardonic, modern-day guide to musical success. Excerpts: ¶ "Learn to balance teacups. Naturally, this applies only to the beginning stages of your career. By the time of your first major symphonic work you will graduate to balancing martini glasses. Meanwhile remember that more than one promising career has been nipped in the bud by a petit...