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...will be boring and fruitless. And we may not go back again...
...Fruitless Efforts...
...police investigation had proved fruitless until last week. Friction among some of the five police agencies working on the case impeded progress, causing Governor William Milliken to observe that the departments had displayed only "passive cooperation" with one another. He ordered the state police to take over. The state cops played an important but unanticipated role in the first major break in the case. State Police Corporal David Leik returned from a vacation to find his house "disturbed." Leik's nephew, John Norman Collins, 23, had a key to the house. Going on Leik's report and other...
...Greek resistance movement has been ineffective. Though tourism fell 20% in the first two summers after the coup, it has rebounded sharply to precoup levels. Athens and the Greek isles are once more crowded with foreign visitors. Pressure on the U.S. has also been fruitless. Unwilling to press a valuable NATO ally too far, Washington has limited its efforts with the regime to friendly persuasion, a cut in heavy arms supplies, and the failure to appoint a new ambassador to Athens...
...wave of lecherous tabloids, with titles like The New York Review of Sex, whose erogenetic aim is mostly emetic in effect. Despite the blatant offensiveness of books, magazines and wall posters in smut-shop windows, local authorities are reluctant to take action for fear of prolonged and probably fruitless appeals through the courts...