Word: efforts
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Britain, France and the U.S., who are the ultimate guarantors of West Berlin's security, strongly rejected the accusations of the Soviets, whom the allies hold responsible for ensuring freedom of access to West Berlin. In a last-minute effort to avert a crisis, West German Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger summoned Soviet Ambassador Semyon Tsarapkin for an extraordinary 2½-hour session at the Palais Schaumburg, but failed to find a solution. After an emergency session of the West Berlin Senate, Mayor Klaus Schütz appealed to West Berliners to remain calm. They were bracing for what many...
According to a cruel gibe at the time, Eshkol became Premier "to prove that Israel could get along without one." Lacking flair and unabashedly heimish (just plain folks), he ventured no flamboyant new policies but rather consolidated and institutionalized the investment of blood, money and effort of the earlier years. Under his leadership, Israelis fulfilled the ancient Jewish promise of meeting "next year in Jerusalem." His dream of seeing a new wave of immigration from Russia proved as elusive as peace with the Arabs, but he came somewhat closer to his political ambition of forging a single majority labor party...
...immensely complex problem in which the basic medical factors are obscured by religious, moral and emotional considerations. Great Britain is now learning the lesson of history in a most unfortunate way. A new law permitting abortion under certain circumstances was passed less than a year ago as a humane effort to treat the matter as an essentially medical issue between patient and doctor. Although the new law has proved helpful to British women, it has swamped physicians and produced some socially divisive results. It has also turned London into the abortion capital of the Western world...
...securities, Resorts may become a major Pan Am stockholder. Last month Wall Street rumors whispered that U.S. Steel, with its $5.6 billion assets, was on several lists of takeover targets. The company has revamped its bookkeeping, as have many other steel companies, to increase reported earnings in an obvious effort to fend...
Unrecognized Intentions. Haldane died of cancer (at 72) in 1964. In an effort to check the disease, he underwent a colostomy, an event he commemorated with a poem...