Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the derelict sculptures wash away with the tide. But some are such masterpieces that they regularly cause crack-ups by gawking drivers on the nearby freeway. One is a 12-ft. gallows with the 13 steps and a hanging effigy, its neck snapped at a medically correct angle. Another is a dinosaur and pterodactyl combination well planted in the muck. Last week a 17-year-old high-schooler named Wayne Saxton finished his fifth dereliction - a mammoth Viking warrior standing almost 20 ft. high. "I like Vikings," said he, as if that explained everything...
...President Johnson's quick and decisive performance in the Tonkin Gulf situation [Aug. 14] was in the correct tradition of American firmness to aggressive acts. To bomb North Viet Nam oil dumps and boat bases was an extreme action in the best sense of the word...
...power. Shellburst jets of water blossomed everywhere. The Boyd's skipper, Lieut. Commander Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp Jr., unable to find the pilot, heeled the crippled destroyer about and began a nightmarish slow-motion escape through waters alive with explosions. "Knowing that the gunners would attempt to correct their fire after each miss," Sharp recalled later, "I decided to chase the fall of the shot." Whenever a shell blew up, he calmly veered toward the geyser. For six miles he ran that gauntlet, brought ship and crew to safety in the open sea, later got a Silver Star...
Castro coddling? Not in Mexico's view. At home, the government sedulously harasses domestic Communists, and its relations with Cuba are, at best, coldly correct. But the Mexicans believe that their Havana embassy and air link with Cuba provide an escape route. More important, Mexico vigorously resists anything that smacks of follow-the-leader-in this case, the U.S. So last month, it had joined Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay-the three other Latin American countries still maintaining relations with Cuba-in voting against the OAS sanctions. With last week's action, Mexico itself became a leader of sorts...
Alfie sued Sparks for libel-in effect demanding that Sparks prove that the original conviction was correct. Sparks tried, but a London jury was unconvinced. It found in Alfie's favor-thus casting Alfie's robbery rap in doubt. "Now," he says happily, "I shall press for my conviction to be quashed...