61.   Despite his best efforts, Bryce struck out in getting autographs.

62.   Despite his best efforts, he said, his daughter still feels too much pressure to excel.

63.   Despite his best efforts, however, he said he has brought in only one recruit.

64.   Despite his best efforts, it leaks out sometimes publicly.

65.   Despite my best efforts, my first-grader had no idea who Princess Diana or Mother Teresa were until they died last week.

66.   Despite our best efforts, they very nearly stripped all seven trees.

67.   Despite the best efforts of a Senate investigative committee, the Whitewater hearings have so far failed to produce a compelling television moment.

68.   Despite the best efforts of Launch and other CD-based magazines, the medium has proved just a little too cramped to be truly satisfying.

69.   Despite the best efforts of Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, much of America truly is ready for some football.

70.   Despite the best efforts of pan-Arabist dreamers or Islamic militants, the truth is that this part of the world is anything but homogeneous.