Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retaliation strikes have not been able to still. In their cafes and kibbutzim, Israelis, too, talk of a fourth round?while disparaging the Arab "war propaganda" as designed only to frighten the big-power diplomats. Within what they consider Fortress Israel, the Israelis regard with deep suspicion any outside attempt to bargain away the occupied territories that provide them with a measure of security, if not of peace...
...coup attempt barely got started, largely because the two most prominent candidates to replace Wilson-Home Secretary James Callaghan and Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins -refused to support the plotters. Moreover, three other Cabinet Ministers, led by Secretary for Social Services Richard Grossman, took a strongly pro-Wilson stand. The Prime Minister felt so confident that he was able to brag to a May Day rally: "I know what is going on. I am going on. Your government is going on!" Wilson thereupon confided that he intended "taking this country by the scruff of the neck" and forcing...
...forthcoming eight-day mission is a dress rehearsal for July's lunar landing attempt. It is easily the most complex and ambitious flight yet scheduled for the U.S. manned space program. Astronauts Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young will spend 61 hours and 35 minutes in lunar orbit, three times longer than the Apollo 8 astronauts. Stafford and Cernan will separate the lunar module from the command module and fly it for the first time in the lunar environment, some 240,000 miles from home. During the LM's solo flight, it will descend from the command...
...stars obviously relish working together, and in fleeting scenes exhibit their celebrated force and subtlety, but Winning stifles any attempt at authentic emotion or excitement. The Newmans are harddriving, lifelong competitors; both now seem ready for a pit stop...
Yale played its best game of the season last Saturday to upset Princeton, 6-4, and hike its league record to 3-2. In addition to this new momentum and a chance for the championship, another factor will be the Elis' attempt to win the final game of coach Dick Corrigan's career...