Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...career-diplomat father is descended from Miles Sta-dish). Beryl said that she and Adam, 22, a producer in WCBS-TV's news department in Manhattan, will be married this month at St. Mary's Chapel in the Washington Cathedral. If her assessment of her fiance is correct, young Adam is a different breed of cat from his flamboyant father. "Adam," said Beryl, "is very, very publicity...
...Senior class circular pushed this same line of reasoning but in a longer, and more eloquent form. The reason for their circular, they stated, was to refute the President's Circular "which contains a statement not belived by the students generally to be full and correct, and which they think is calculated to make a false impression on the public mind." After relating the events as they saw them, the students substantiated the Juniors' charges agains President Quincy and added one of their own: that Quincy actually told Barnwell when he arrived at Harvard that he did not like...
...Thanks for the news of the Lear Steam Racer, and for the comments on the old Stanley Steamers [April 11]. Allow me to correct one such: no Stanley boiler ever has blown up. Attempts were made to do this at the factory, and all that happened was the collapse of one of the 600 or so tubes with a big leak, but no disaster. This is of more than historic interest since a surprising number of old Stanleys have been lovingly restored, and are in use at antique car rallies and the like. It would be a pity...
...course was held at India's Small Industries Extension Training Institute in Hyderabad and lasted two weeks. Everything in the crash curriculum-including games, written assignments and films-was calculated to correct the self-image of men who saw themselves as pawns rather than agents of change. This was, the authors write, "in great contrast to the traditional strategy of trying to show how some ways of doing things are better than others in the hope that indirectly and slowly [the businessmen] will decide on some rational basis to do the better things...
...voting for. Not any more than a clothing salesman from Dayton, Ohio." Paramount's production chief Robert Evans concurs: "There are people in the Academy who haven't worked in years. How can they know what the industry is about anymore?" Perhaps Joseph Mankiewicz is correct when he says: "A film academy that includes financiers and publicity men and does not include Fellini, Bergman and Truffaut, can hardly be called an academy. Somewhere there should be a place where film creators decide for themselves matters of merit." Says Paul Newman: "There must be something wrong with a group...