Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such keen interest in current issues indicates the academic community is anxious to discourage the widely held notion that professors are anemic cowards who cling to the cloistered life because they fear the road where men are wont to tread. Indeed, the success of academic penetration into the social, political and literary life of the country shows how well the academy has destroyed this myth...
...would suggest that the problems Cuba faces have not been real and difficult, but after four hundred executions and two months' suspension of constitutional rights, it is depressing to find the abuses of legal procedure growing even more acute. As an ex-lawyer, Fidel Castro is making a thorough success of destroying...
Macmillan had few illusions of success when he arrived in Moscow wearing his fabled fur hat, and throughout his visit he was reasonable, firm and articulate. Even when Khrushchev turned from geniality to insolence, reversing what he called the Russian tradition of beginning a meal with tart foods and ending with sweet ones, Macmillan remained receptive yet firm. He had come, he said, to explain the position of the West and to learn at first hand the attitude of the Russians on the problem of Berlin and central Europe...
...moreover, the varsity did not profit from it. Against New Hampshire, for example, the Crimson gathered in 87 rebounds, but nonetheless lost, 69 to 62. Only when Bob Bowditch and Bob Repetto, both 6 ft., 1 in., were effective underneath was the varsity able to achieve any degree of success, and this was contingent on the team's shooting from the floor...
...world, the enormous success of Farmer North and thousands like him may be even more significant. The new methods have proved just as successful abroad as in the U.S. For example, in England, Farmer Anthony Fisher tried his hand at dairying. After his herd died of foot-and-mouth disease he was about ready to quit. Hearing about the U.S. system of raising broilers, he wrote to Ralston Purina Co. to get free brochures on how to do it. He started out with 200 birds. Now his output has grown to 1,000,000 a year. The broiler king...