Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thank you, Mr. Morrow, for the wonderfully flattering Essay [March 14], which has me breathing rarefied air. It's one I shall read again should my spirits sag (and they will) as I attempt new projects...
...federation with a still-to-be-formed Palestinian state. This week in Washington he will argue that the Arab world is basically united (or at least as united as it is ever likely to be) and that the time is ripe for a return to Geneva and an attempt to achieve an overall peace settlement in the Middle East...
Fruitless Overtures. As with his earlier acquisition efforts, Gray's attempt to swallow up Babcock & Wilcox has not left his target's management cheering. The tender-offer announcement, which caught Wall Street by surprise, followed weeks of fruitless overtures by Gray to B&W's chairman, George Zipf. Last week, after Gray had finally managed to see Zipf twice to no avail, he rocketed off what amounted to an ultimatum, telling Zipf that he had until week's end to declare whether B & W would fight the offer. Zipfs reply was both immediate and curt...
...without being stuffy about it. If one is willing to follow him into the jaws of hell, then why not, for a couple of hours, into a gale of moral ambivalence? Moreover, we first meet him and his elite unit in Warsaw, putting themselves at risk in a vain attempt to rescue a young Jewish woman from the SS. Thus they are immediately established as gallant lads, holding nothing but contempt for deplorable national policies they have, in any case, been too busy on the Russian front to consider very deeply...
...rigged it with 100,000 steel darts, which, if detonated at just the right moment, can wipe out everybody in the stadium, down to the last pompon girl. With him is Marthe Keller, his mistress and representative of Black September, the Arab terrorist organization that is financing his attempt to turn homicidal fantasy into reality. Coming on fast is Robert Shaw, Israeli counterterrorist, who must shinny down a rope from a helicopter, attach a skyhook to the blimp and tow it away from the stadium before Dern sets off his destruction...