Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wound that heals as quickly as they pass on. The police presence, lessened during the late morning, reappears in force. The Secret Service sets up new barricades, mounted police begin to circle the Common, and the state forces line the sidewalks blue shoulder to blue shoulder in a hopeless effort to keep the paths open...
...effort to calm harried pedestrians unnerved by the contruction in Harvard Square, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) will sponsor a series of Saturday afternoon concerts on top of the Out of Town News kiosk this fall...
...events and, for that matter, of my own background, was stunning. There was little wasted motion either in his words or in his movements. Both reflected the inner tensions of a man concerned, as he stressed, with the endless daily problems of a people of 800 million and the effort to preserve ideological faith...
...features and groaning with ads (60 pages out of 144). The initial press run of 416,000 copies was quickly claimed a sellout, but some London journalists, while wishing it well, were saying Now! should more accurately be called Then! Aside from a scoop about Iraqi spying, the only effort at hard news was a watery recap of the Rhodesian peace talks. Judged the Financial Times: "Newsmagazine is precisely what the first issue is not. It is a feature magazine, and not an especially good one at that." Said Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans: "There is less of a feeling...
...sucking in, widening out or moving around pictures on the screen. "Zapping the cornea," ABC's style has been called. (CBS and NBC have the gadgets too, but don't let them take over.) ABC's impressive technological wizardry, alas, is not matched by a comparable effort to assess the content of the day's news or reflect upon it, though World News Tonight is a lively illustrated headline service. But the watcher may find it a little harder to remember what news he has just seen...