Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SURPRISE! is a farce by Fred Carmichael, producer-director of the Caravan Theater at the Dorset, Vt., Playhouse, where his latest effort will appear...
...changed forever the environment of man on earth, so will the moon landing change forever man's dependence upon his own earth for survival. The cosmos is his. Its vastness, which holds all the answers to life and death, is but now space to be transited in this effort...
...were enjoying independence. They approved a plan to strengthen their autonomy with a permanent pan-African secretariat empowered to call meetings of the African bishops and act as a communications clearinghouse. When Pope Paul arrived in Kampala, he heartily endorsed their moves, both toward autonomy and a more vigorous effort to Africanize the church. In Rugaba Cathedral, Tanzania's Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa pledged the symposium's "total solidarity" with Rome (last year, the bishops had praised the Pope's birth control encyclical). Then Paul cut the umbilical cord of four centuries. "You are missionaries to yourselves...
...inevitable, they will continue to buy and borrow in order to beat still further increases. Once people begin to doubt that "good times" will last forever, the theory goes, then everyone will become more cautious in his buying decisions, demand will slow down-and prices will taper off. This effort to conquer euphoria has at last succeeded in an area of the economy that deeply affects most U.S. adults: the stock market. Wall Street's speculative binge has been replaced by the bear market...
...troubles stem largely from an ambitious M.T.A. effort to make the Long Island a model commuter railroad. Using $132 million in state and federal money, the agency set out two years ago to re-equip the line with 620 fast, air-conditioned Budd Co. cars. Deliveries, which began last fall, have lagged 25 weeks behind schedule, and the cars have developed many bugs. Every day, more than half of the 94 cars accepted so far have been out of service because of mechanical breakdowns. The flashy Budd cars that do run have become prime targets for rock-throwing...