Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ayub Khan expected more of the same in Moscow, he was disappointed. The Soviet reception was correct but cool. There was no 21-gun salute; there were no TV cameras, no crowds of citizens trucked out from the city or little girls with floral bouquets. After all, Ayub Khan's new chumminess with China was not calculated to please, and Soviet leaders still remember that the U.S. U-2 spy plane shot down in 1960 over the Russian heartland had taken off from Pakistan's Peshawar base. But Russia's Premier Aleksei Kosygin was on hand...
Hand Screening. Started in 1959 by French-born Harvard Professor Georges Doriot, who noticed and decided to correct the lack of top-quality management training in Europe, INSEAD today has 120 students from 25 countries. Most of them are Europeans, but seven are from the U.S., and others come from Brazil, India, Japan and South Viet Nam. Students or their sponsoring firms pay $1,800 tuition and board for the one-year course; students can also draw scholarship loans, since INSEAD is financed in large part by donations from international corporations. Though the permanent faculty is small, guest lecturers come...
Residents of City public housing projects yesterday angrily confronted their landlord, the Cambridge Housing Authority. After listening to both sides for nearly three hours, the City Council asked the Authority to establish "tenant councils" in Cambridge's 11 public projects and to correct specific complaints voiced at the hearing...
Nevertheless, such Democratic victories are generally explained by the "coattails factor." But if the coattails theory is correct, then Republican Governors ought to have been driven from office in large numbers...
...incomprehensible geographical puzzles - and specifies that the population of any district may not vary by more than 15% from the average population of other districts in the same state. A total of 130 districts in 32 states now fail to meet that population provision; they would be required to correct matters before the 1966 congressional elections...