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...vain attempt to mollify the protesters, the Navy has promised to cut its bombardment in half by 1979. The Navy also lets Hawaiians fish and boat near the island on occasional weekends and once allowed a small group ashore for a religious service. But the Navy maintains that Kahoolawe is the only suitable target range within easy reach of its Hawaiian bases. Vice Admiral Samuel Gravely Jr., commander of the Third Pacific Fleet, pointedly notes: "The military in Hawaii is a billion-dollar-a-year business. A significant part of that business is generated because Navy and Marine forces...
Amidst all the hot, heavy air billowing forth from the movie capital this summer-a vain effort to blow some life into the uncommon number of overweight turkeys that are dying for want of public sympathy-One on One comes on like a sudden breeze off a lake...
Hiring and firing various attorneys, Ray fought in vain for a trial, claiming that Foreman had pressured him into confessing. Foreman concedes that he advised Ray that both the evidence and the outraged mood of the country were so strong against him that he probably would be sentenced to death if he insisted on a trial at first, instead of admitting his guilt. Last year Ray's attempt to withdraw his guilty plea and gain a trial was rejected by both the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Judicial Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. At the time...
...stood but 5 ft. 4 in., so they called him "the little priest." He was a shy sort, not much of an orator, and enough the awkward immigrant from Bohemia that some of his colleagues lobbied in vain with Rome to keep him from becoming the bishop of cultured Philadelphia. When he died at 48, the carvers misspelled his name on the tombstone...
...like seasons, Portland fans had waited in vain for Walton to become again the fierce-eyed force that once drove John Wooden's finest U.C.L.A. teams. They had waited for the 6-ft. 11-in. redhead to sweep the backboards of rebounds and to show them the best big-man's passing game in the history of the sport. But he burdened them with ramblings about FBI bugs in the woodwork. The Trail Blazers had counted on his size and strength to muscle them out of expansion-team doldrums and into the joyful world of N.B.A. contenders. Instead...