Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declared that France could maintain the respect of Germany and its position as the "leader of Western Europe" only by ensuring that the nation does not relapse, after his death or retirement, into "the precarious and disastrous condition that it knew for 50 years" of unending political crises. To correct what he once called "the badly constructed framework" of the Third and Fourth Republics, De Gaulle proposes to strengthen the present presidential system and thus confer on his successor the authority that Charles de Gaulle enjoys by virtue of his immense personal prestige...
...SALERNO. Writer Carl Foreman arrived in Italy last week with a large cast and crew determined to correct his earlier failures. Somehow, says Foreman, The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Guns of Navarone got out of hand, and although they were blazingly successful, failed to deliver his central message: "I feel that all we won in the last war was the license to have another. I am trying to reflect the bitterness and disappointment my generation feels. There's a larger theme, that any war, big or little, just or unjust, always degrades the victors equally with...
...month of sailing against the trial horse Vim, Gretel had shown an alarming tendency to heel over in heavy weather. Hoping to correct it, Sir Frank Packer, head of the syndicate behind the Australian contender, ordered her 90-ft. aluminum mast stepped forward 19 in. Her rigging had to be reset, her deck drilled and patched, her vast sails recut. When Gretel slipped off the ways, she still had to test her sheets, still had to learn if the new rigging would let her steer easier in fresh breezes and add a crucial fraction of a knot to her speed...
Atlas presents its samplings from the foreign press in deadly earnest-as the heavy-footed translations often show. It is better to be correct than lively, argue the editors, even at the expense of sometimes being dull. The format is invariable -80 pages, no ads, dark pictures, brisk italic notes before each article to introduce the writer and his paper. Editor Quincy Howe (who moonlights on Atlas from his job as an ABC news analyst) graces each issue with a breezy editorial that stylishly avoids pausing long enough on any subject to say very much about...
Before the U.S. exploded a nuclear bomb high over the Pacific early this summer, famed Physicist James Van Allen predicted that the blast would create a globe-girdling belt of dangerous radiation. Last week data from orbiting Injun I satellite proved him correct. The new belt is 200 to 500 miles high, just a little closer to earth than the permanent belt named after Discoverer Van Allen. But its intensity is waning, and by the end of a year it will be almost undetectable...