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...attempt on President Ford's life took place. Prison authorities refused their dozen requests to visit Manson. Bugliosi has called her the "chief cheerleader of the Manson cause." Indeed, she has continued trying to recruit new members, but without apparent success. She has also attempted−usually in vain−to keep members from deserting the group...
...create a rainbow of new colors. In 1954, Burpee made a public offer of $10,000 for seeds that would produce a white blossom at least 2½ in. across. Amateur gardeners sent in thousands of entries, and the Burpee Co. spent $250,000 in testing them, in vain...
...recent months, South African Prime Minister John Vorster has tried several times to persuade Smith to come to terms with the black leadership. After a vain effort in June, one African National Council official complained: "Vorster is barking at Smith when he should be biting...
...said that Beame "has made a 180-degree turn, which is exactly what had to be done." But it would have been better if Beame had made his turnabout earlier. In the time-honored fashion of New York politicians, he had put off dealing with the crisis in the vain hope that it would somehow go away. At first, he tried to accuse the banks, as if they were to blame for incurring the city's debt. When that failed, he made a loud plea for more state and federal aid, when those governments were also hard-pressed...
...arms with Shirley Temple sweetness. Donald O'Connor is so frenetic as Kelly's comic sidekick that he's exhausting to watch, particularly in "Make 'Em Laugh," a tribute to vaudeville slapstick during which he walks into walls, falls over couches, and generally mutilates himself in a (vain) attempt to make someone, anyone laugh. But Jean Hagen is the most annoying of all, doing a pale imitation of Judy Holliday as a shrill, dumb blonde, a silent star who refuses to admit she wasn't cut out for the sound...