Word: successfully
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Lake Success, appeasement was in the air. The British were in a mood to make a deal, and their phrase for it was "buffer state." Their hope was that the Chinese Reds could be persuaded to withdraw peacefully to the Manchurian border, provided that a large adjoining strip of North Korea was made into a neutral zone, administered, presumably, by the United Nations...
...counterattack (see WAR IN ASIA). If Mao Tse-tung hoped to blackmail the U.S. and U.N. into giving him i) U.N. membership, 2) Formosa, he had to maintain a strong position in Korea for at least the next two or three weeks while his delegation was negotiating at Lake Success. The cue for U.S. delegates in the U.N. was to play for time, enter into no negotiations with the Chinese, and do what it could to persuade its lagging and anxious allies...
Stanton's success story makes Horatio Alger seem believable. Last year he signed a ten-year, million-dollar contract with CBS, and bonuses will raise his annual income to $130,000. Last month he had the heady experience of turning down a job, for which he could "name his own price," offered him by rival RCA. Refusing jobs has become almost a matter of routine. In his 15 years at CBS he has said no (sometimes repeatedly) to Pollsters Elmo Roper and Nielsen, FORTUNE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two other universities, three advertising firms, assorted Government agencies...
...afterburners are secret. The great flames are probably inefficient, using floods of fuel. But they will toss a fighter up to 40,000 feet in half the time that would be needed without them. For an interceptor like the F-94, a few minutes saved in climbing might mean success in downing an enemy bomber...
Schulberg has picked up pieces of an age which has great appeal today, but he fails to integrate these pieces into the novel which was intended. The dying author says, "Nothing fails like success." It is an interesting note, but just where the success was, we never know...