Word: succession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Overdose of Success...
...fireworks. The work fared little better elsewhere in Italy. Audiences found it too moralistic; singers were terrorized by its complexities. In fact, it was last heard at La Scala more than a century ago. Yet despite the twin handicaps of obscurity and popular indifference, the revival was a major success...
...even there, delay and confusion continue. "Elephant lines" of as many as 25 planes often wait on runways to take off. A jet may circle for literally hours-hoping for clearance to land. In short, air travel, the great success symbol of 20th century man's conquest of space and time, is on the verge of becoming-like railways, highways, traffic and smog, a fit subject for bad jokes by stand-up comics. (Sample: "There really were three Wright brothers, but one is still stacked up over O'Hare...
...lady in the College House Pharmacy who gave me my very own box of Mollskin on a fateful day last spring. Blisters had been a terrible problem for me, but after my trip to the Pharmacy, life for my feet was immeasurably better. A good deal of any success I had in last year's Marathon must be credited to the little old lady...
Murphy, perhaps the best three-meter driver in the East, won the William J. Brooks Trophy for the third consecutive year. The trophy is named for the present Harvard head coach and is presented "to the diver who contributes the most to the success of Harvard's swimming team." Murphy was the Eastern Seaboards champion two years ago, but finished fourth this winter...