Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anti-Planner Jacobs is capitalizing on common dissatisfactions via malicious attacks. Professional planners, who are thoroughly trained in the social and behavioral sciences, share her concern. Most of Jacobs' slanted facts are correct, but her whipping boy-should be the quacks, who parade as public or private planners because they have funds to invest or can bend over a drawing board...
...nose-thumbing of Khrushchev. By ironic coincidence, last week was also the 20th anniversary of the Albanian Communist Party, which provided occasion for counterfire. Khrushchev may have accused the Albanian Reds of such terrorism that "even pregnant women are shot," but Peking sent congratulations to Tirana, praised the "correct leadership" of Albanian Boss Enver Hoxha, and crooned that the Chinese people admire the Albanian people "from the bottom of their hearts...
...present, doctors don't know if there going to be a flu epidemic. And, if the indirect statistical predictions for an epidemic are correct, there is still no way of telling which of the 30 different types of flu virus will attack Cambridge...
...Fleet's attack stirred Stevenson to rare asperity. "The charge you have repeated is totally false," wired Stevenson. "I will be obliged if you will correct your statement, and if there is any doubt about this in your mind I suggest that you check the facts yourself." Van Fleet hastily retreated: "My information was evidently erroneous. I stand corrected...
...oddity of this method of policy determination is that it works. The Daily Princetonian is not in a perpetual state of revolt over Munson's editorials--he usually is correct in guessing what the rest of the Princetonian board thinks on a given issue. He could not do this at Harvard, but then, Princeton is different from Harvard...