Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...you?he is being treated the same as everyone else." This hardly seems to have been the case. According to John Farrar, the diver who retrieved Mary Jo's body the next morning after an islander had reported the submerged car and after Arena had himself made an unsuccessful attempt to recover the body, the chief was informed that Kennedy was waiting for him back at Edgartown. By this time Arena knew that it was Kennedy's car and was attempting to have his office locate the Senator. When Arena heard that Kennedy preferred to talk to him in Edgartown...
...were downed and one Egyptian plane was lost. The Israelis, citing photographic proof, said that seven Egyptian jets were downed and two more damaged, and admitted no losses. Over the next two days, when Israeli jets again lashed at Egyptian positions along the canal, Egyptian aircraft made only one attempt to intercept them...
...begin the stage of liberation. We shall fight for the restoration of our land, not only Egyptian lands but all Arab lands." Calling for a war of attrition, he warned that "we are now engaged in a long battle to drain the enemy's strength." In an attempt to create more Arab cooperation against Israel, he called for a new Arab summit conference, noting that "conditions now are very different from what they were when we last met in Khartoum in August 1967." Nasser paid specific tribute to one of those-"changed conditions": he hailed the Palestinian resistance movement...
...Cure. Similar ideas are also being put to use in a few of the schools that attempt to treat autistics along with other problem children. Carl Fenichel of Brooklyn's League School for Seriously Disturbed Children told the National Society meeting that he has had some success by firmly distracting autistic children from their tantrums and insisting they practice simple mechanical tasks such as holding a pencil or using an egg beater. "Disorganized children need someone to organize their world for them," he says. "They fear their own loss of control and seek protection against their own impulsive drives...
...plunged 51% last quarter, has deeply slashed its $300 million capital-spending plans for 1969. At New Stanton, Pa., construction of a $200 million assembly plant was halted even as the steel was going up. B. F. Goodrich, which is trying to fatten earnings and fend off a takeover attempt by Northwest Industries, plans to trim its 1969 spending. So does International Harvester, which has scrapped plans to expand its network of offices around the country...