Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Widespred speculation that the marchers would attempt to erect their shantytown on the Mall in front of the Capitol has preoccupied many Washington officials this week. Congressman William C. Kramer (R-Fla.), the author of the anti-riot provision of the 1968 Civil Rights Act, is pushing a bill to bar the marchers from erecting their shacks anywhere near the complex of federal buildings surrounding the Mail...
...Attempt to install a black couple as Residents in one of the dormitories...
...Trustees shows us that this Ad Hoc Committee is talking in a vacuum. The Trustees called for a temporary halt in gym construction as a favor to the mayor, not in response to the needs of the community. I.D.A. is not mentioned at all. The faculty has made no attempt to demand the power to negotiate, or the power to control the police. This indicates that they fail to recognize what is clear to everyone else: the Administration has been thoroughly discredited. At the same time that the Faculty has been claiming they were "mediating" in good faith, they have...
...demands, including amnesty. The Faculty Ad Hoc Committee has recognized, as we have recognized, the fruitlessness of negotiations under the present circumstances. They independently broke off negotiations with us after last night's session. Professor Westin, chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, told us that the committee would now attempt to put forth an independent proposal for the solution of the crisis, rather than continue in its mediating capacity. We welcome this move on the part of the Ad Hoc Committee as recognition of the fact that they are a political entity; we welcome those members of the committee...
...eight-man committee, which will attempt the first major investigation of the House system since the Bender committee's 1950 study, will begin its work this month and will probably report its findings to the Faculty sometime next fall...