Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earlier report, the mayor's emergency truth squads confined themselves to interviewing police, National Guardsmen and hotel security officers-the very people they were intent upon exonerating. In probing the 5 a.m. police raid on the McCarthy headquarters in the Conrad Hilton, Daley's "investigators" failed to question any of the volunteers who were supposedly raining dangerous debris onto the heads of cops and passersby. Some objects obviously were thrown from hotel windows; just as obviously, neither the cops nor the National Guard could have known which windows they came from. Daley's supporters have also made...
...intent of the archaeologists to preserve the site became clear, a storm of opposition arose among the citizens of modern Vienne, who insisted that their school had first priority. But the wily archaeologists, abandoning their reticence, called in the press and television, granted interviews, and soon had all of France talking about visiting the Roman ruins of Vienne. Flattered by the national publicity and suddenly fascinated by the city of their 1st, 2nd and 3rd century ancestors, Vienne's townspeople have now agreed to build their school on an adjoining 25-acre site -and to accept half a million...
...fact that Nixon spoke of himself as the hero of this American dream, even though his intent was plainly modest, seemed cloying to some. And the reference to a train whistle was an oddly old-fashioned note: trains do not symbolize escape and movement to today's young. Yet there could be little doubt that Nixon was sincere here, just as Lyndon Johnson is sincere when he talks about his years of poverty along the Pedernales. Certainly Nixon's audience in Miami knew what he was talking about, and responded...
...bright new look is Managing Editor Alastair Burnet, a former television newsman who took over the Economist three years ago at the age of 36. Together with Art Director Peter Dunbar, 39, Burnet plots out each cover as a "duet" of picture and caption. Burnet's intent is to attract new readers "in the younger categories." In his three years as M.E., circulation has increased by 45% to 100,000 copies a week...
...guards to interrupt the family's privacy, and for the duration of the visit the prisoner is allowed to put away his convict's uniform and wear his own clothes. Common law wives are not permitted so far, but the possibility is still under discussion. The intent of the program, explains Governor Ronald Reagan, is to "develop family strengths to sustain ex-inmates as they complete the transition from prison to a law-abiding society...