Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the Governor is not due for re-election until 1970, California is one of 13 states that allow state officers to face recall, a turn-of-the-century device designed to evict officeholders before their terms are up. The Recall-a-thon climaxes a six-month attempt to exercise that privilege...
...campaign was launched by Ed Koupal, a 40-year-old automobile salesman, and his wife Joyce, after an earlier attempt failed last year. By the end of last week, the Koupals claimed that their 18,000 volunteers had gathered some 800,000 signatures. They are shooting for more than 1,000,000 by July 31, when the allowed six months of petitioning is up. Though only 780,414 valid signatures are needed, up to 40% could be invalidated because signers are not properly registered voters...
...plan-the industry's first major attempt to mollify its critics - was devised during six years of research by the American Mutual Insurance Alliance, a 122-member trade group. Ex plains President Paul S. Wise: "As conceived more than half a century ago, an auto-liability policy was designed to protect the driver of a car against law suits, not to compensate the accident victim. Legally, this is still so. But public expectations have shifted toward protecting the injured." Though the alliance carefully calls its plan" Guaranteed Benefits," the guarantee does not cover property damage; it applies only...
...sent a C-130 from Resolute Bay this "morning" with a 3,000-pound payload of huts, newspapers, dog food, and tea for the summer camp. But a ten-knot wind made the airdrop unfeasible, and the plane returned from over the camp without dropping the supplies. A second attempt is cheduled for tomorrow...
...related to the characters or the action of the rest of the play. This is not a fault--it is just another style of writing plays, one that is circuitous and whimsical, full of zany cynical asides for their own sake. Anouilh has a European mind and Chapman's attempt to fit it into the straight-forward Anglo-Saxon mold is disastrous...