Word: succession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EIGHT years and $24 billion after John F. Kennedy challenged his countrymen to become "pioneers in a space project," the U.S. is poised to put men on the moon. Yet even as they stand on the threshold of success, officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are in a state of public stoicism and private gloom. Their triumph has become their travail: having progressed from orbiting a 31.5-lb. Explorer satellite to the Apollo lunar landing program, they are like showmen who brought off a spectacularly successful act and are now having trouble deciding upon an acceptable encore...
...many advocates of crisis intervention, the unfortunate effect of hospitalization is a basic article of faith. Their objective is to obstruct the patient's progress to an institution, and they can point to some conditional evidence of success. The annual commitment rate to state mental hospitals from San Francisco, for example, has dropped from 2,887 to 119 in the past four years-a decline in which the city's expanding complex of emergency-treatment centers was a major factor. Grady Memorial Hospital, which opened a crisis center in 1968, now treats 5,000 psychiatric emergencies a year...
Died. Ella Logan, 56, diminutive, burry-voiced Scottish lass who rose to stardom in the 1947 production of Finian's Rainbow; of cancer; in Burlingame, Calif. Broadway lit up the instant Ella sang How Are Things in Glocca Morra?, but success was a long time coming-32 years-from the day she toddled on to a Paisley, Scotland, stage to pipe Roamin' in the Gloamin' at the age of two. Besides Finian, she did Sons o' Fun and George White's Scandals, then went on to movies and TV until her semi-retirement...
...distribution by residence of the class of 1973 will not vary much from that of the class of 1972, Peterson noted. "The most significant change appears to be greater success in inner city areas," he said, adding that the quality of applicants from the South and Far-West has also risen...
...expected Harvard to have such a powerful water polo team this year. Despite being unranked, the Crimson decided to enter the AAU's for the first time in the meet's 33-years history. As a result of the team's surprising success, which came after only five weeks of practice. Harvard emerged as the too-ranked team in the East. Even more encouraging, the entire squad will be back next spring...