Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israel destroyed some expensive airplanes in Beirut. Where is the sense of values when world figures and nations collectively and individually object to the loss of property but do not make themselves heard when lives are deliberately destroyed? The condemnation charges against Israel should be withdrawn and a genuine effort made to help the countries of the Middle East find peace...
...course, frequently made by others. No speculation about 1972 omits Kennedy's name. Almost any political act on his part can be interpreted as self-aggrandizement. When two young Manhattan career girls started Help Organize People Early and sent out thousands of Ted-boosting buttons, he disowned their effort. Still, he has not repudiated family tradition-and apparently cannot. It is hard under the circumstances to forget J.F.K.'s remark, delivered somewhat humorously: "I came into politics in my brother Joe's place. If anything happens to me, Bobby will take my place, and if Bobby goes...
Queueing for Everything. Ten years of Communism à la Castro have changed Cuba dramatically. Castro calls them "the ten most difficult years." He holds out the promise that Cuban sacrifices will soon be rewarded by a richly productive decade-but only after another "year of decisive effort, a year of 18 months," in which Cubans may have to trade even their holidays for back-breaking work in the boondocks. After the initial, unsuccessful attempt at rapid industrialization, the emphasis has been on agriculture for the past few years. Outside San José, a town east of Havana, a huge billboard...
Other Faculty members who have learned of the letter have been calling in their signatures, Martin said, but the emphasized that no effort is being made to solicit signatures. The drafters of the letter intended it to be a private document and sought no publicity...
...Cambridge City Council, in a last ditch effort to halt the proposed Cambridge Inner Belt Highway, voted last night to organize a massive march on the Massachusetts state house to take place before the end of January...