Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey's giddy "happy" politics is superficial and disgusting. Eugene McCarthy's attempt is gallant but impractical. Kennedy seems to be the only Democratic candidate who has heard the nation's heartbeat, eloquently expressed its melancholy, and injected a note of hope tempered with pragmatic realism...
True to Type. All over Paris, there were scenes reminiscent of the street battles of the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871. On the Boulevard St. Germain, a workman dressed in blue overalls attacked the pavement with a heavy, pointed bar in an attempt to free the first paving stone, which would liberate the others. As soon as he had succeeded, a grandmotherly woman took her place in a line of Parisians that quickly formed to pass the stones to others who were building a barricade. On the Boulevard St. Michel, a student sat atop the barricade...
...with more bombs, and proceeded on to a small airstrip near Cap Haitien. There one and possibly two other larger planes had just landed with 20 well-armed men, probably trainees from secret camps in the Bahamas. Thus last week, for the eighth time in ten years, began another attempt by Haitian exiles to topple the brutal and corrupt government of Haitian Dictator François ("Papa Doc") Duvalier...
Andover, as a matter of policy, doesn't search students' private rooms, explained Dean of Students John Richards in an interview. They have had two incidents involving drugs this year; but in neither case did the school initiate an attempt to discover the users...
...hopes at least that whites will for once see a believable black on TV. Says she: "I'd like a couple million of them to watch and say, 'Hey, so that's what they do when they go home at night.' " Preferential Treatment. The attempt to add black to the TV spectrum is not confined to entertainment shows. Net works and stations all over the country have started a hunt for black reporters, film men and technicians. In the past few weeks, TV channels in New Orleans, Miami and St. Paul have added Negro staffers. They...