Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew of the ketch "Golden Rule" will attempt a second voyage from Honolulu into the Eniwetok testing grounds tomorrow, as a further protest against continuing nuclear tests. This announcement was made Sunday in Washington, D.C., by William R. Huntington '28, who addressed the 200 "Peace Walkers" who gathered in Washington over the weekend...
...active revolt against the central government. Unlike the career politicians, he commands the support of the military, and will hopefully heal the breaches between Paris and Algiers and Corsica. More important in the long run, his statements and those of his spokesmen have indicated that de Gaulle will attempt to work for a settlement in the long-standing Algerian war, rather than give in to right-wing demands for an even stronger military effort, as many have feared. Here, of course, he will have to play a delicate game in avoiding alienating the generals, whose support is now so important...
...least to business-office eyes. "It makes the reader go through the entire paper," argues one official. "We can tell an advertiser that every one of our pages is well read." Wooing the advertiser further, Boston papers zealously cover every ribbon-cutting ceremony in the city. But no real attempt is made to cover the city's constant flow of major educational, scientific and medical stories. Deskmen often fumble major stories; e.g., one paper ran Russia's first A-bomb explosion below the fold on the front page...
...needed in the decade ahead need not gobble up all the available money for education. The teacher is really much more important than the bricks." The center will give advice, and from time to time it will finance experimental construction that would be economically too risky for schools to attempt alone. The center will not respond, says Gores, to what he calls "LSMFT-Lord send money fast, thanks" requests...
Susskind took over the dying days of the sagging Kraft Theater in a frank attempt to prove what a live weekly show could be, hit a high point with All the King's Men. His other six plays had been enterprising, if not consistently successful. All met zero response from sponsors with next season on their minds...