Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were being visited upon New Haven to calm the seething inhabitants and to show the benighted the light of coeducational normalcy and tranquility. The ever-present smiles on the faces of the girls were almost beatific, surely maternal, and terribly altruistic. Reverend Coffin said that Coeducation Week was an effort to "reincarnate communities--to transform them from cold routinized bureaucracy into a warm organic existence." We were helping those poor guys, oh yes we were. It was very strange, indeed...
...heads soliciting nominations for such posts. Replies will be screened, then the information will be transcribed on tape for storage in Government computers. But Nixon Adviser John Ehrlichman was quick to assure: "Computers won't be picking people-people will be picking people." Ehrlichman added that no special effort will be made to recruit members of minority races "in the sense that we will have a quota of 12% Negroes because that is the ratio of Negroes to the total population. That would be artificial...
...between the world's leading monetary managers. According to one report, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer lectured the West German Finance Minister "as if he were a member of the Conservative Opposition." Jenkins himself was heckled outside the ministry by Germans who were protesting against British efforts to encourage a mark revaluation. The demonstrators carried placards that read SCHILLER AND STRAUSS, DON'T BE BLACKMAILED! and WILSON, HANDS OFF THE D-MARK!-a reference to a telegram that British Prime Minister Harold Wilson had sent to Chancellor Kiesinger in an effort to enlist West German support...
...hard as possible. Bombing of supply lines along the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos has increased since the bombing halt over North Viet Nam. Hundreds of ground patrols stab out daily to find and fix Communist forces and bring them to battle. The allied pacification effort has been accelerated, with the aim of hoisting as many yellow-and-red South Vietnamese flags as possible before any cease-fire might freeze territorial claims. Saigon wants to add no fewer than 1,000 hamlets to its control by early 1969: it now claims some measure of control...
...Impressed after a tour of Columbia Point, Senator Edward Kennedy was able to get another $50 million added to the OEO appropriation. But no matter how far the OEO expands its health centers, they will not be enough to solve the nationwide medical problems of the poor. The effort to supply health care for maximum social impact will cost many more millions, and perhaps billions...