Word: attempting
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Some U.S. politicians have discovered that a better way is to let hecklers hang themselves with their own words. When Robert Kennedy visited Tokyo's Waseda University in 1962, he made a gallant attempt to quiet an anti-American mob by inviting the noisiest of the hecklers to share the microphone. Edmund Muskie, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, used the same tactic this year with more success. And at a rally last week, Nixon made the best of a sticky situation by giving opponents an opportunity to criticize without heckling. He allowed 1,200 Syracuse University students to sing...
...from Warsaw Pact countries are more inquisitive than ever. Hungarian truck drivers carrying loads of tomatoes and paprika to Yugoslav markets wander off the main road and somehow blunder into Yugoslav troops in border regions. Tito fears that Soviet agents, working with die-hard ethnic groups, will make an attempt on his life. But both sides can play that game. Last week three leaders of an exile group of anti-Tito Croatians were found shot to death in their Munich office, and other Croatian exiles put the blame on Tito's secret service...
...attempt to revive interest in the club, Katz said he is leading a movement to change the constitution and break with the national organization. Such a break would give the club much greater freedom in deciding policies, Katz said. "We could then make up our mind, and if the national organization doesn't like it, then that will be just tough for them...
...intellectual problem atrophies into so much stone-throwing and name-calling. Of course one must realize that by jumping in the middle of a stone fight one always runs the risk of being hit and mediation is invariably viewed by one side or the other as a sneaky attempt at a put down. But for either side to view this issue in terms of victory or defeat would be exceedingly dangerous--victory in this case would be marginal and deluding and would, at best, ignore the qualitative problem of developing a meaningful approach to the history of black people...
...will attempt to get in the win column next week against Brown, while Columbia seeks its second victory in a row, against the Big Green in Hanover. Penn hosts Yale in an attempt to keep its fading hopes for a share of the Ivy title alive...