Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days in Wilmington, Del. Once, during the course of the research, she and Mr. Greenewalt found themselves in a long, theoretical discussion on how TIME researches and reports a story-particularly such a complicated one as this. The discussion finally wound up in a bet. If there were no errors in the Greenewalt cover story, he was to pay Liz $5; for each error, Liz was to pay him $1. Says she: "I had to send him $1. I got Pierre du Font's age wrong...
...there is no real economic dialectic, says Moore. The drive of Soviet Russia's industrial machine comes from the pressure of the Kremlin, backed by terror, and not from the nature of the economic system. The Communist structure depends on its leadership, and the leaders are using "trial-and-error methods...
...statement released last night, the Council said, "We feel that the United States Air Force has committeed a grievous error in not granting commissions to approximately 50 percent of the graduating cadets in the Air Force ROTC program. . . By not granting commissions to these men the United States Air Force is guilty not only of a moral breach of faith to its cadets, but also to the College which has incorporated such an officer training program into its academic curriculum...
...Washington Post (which advocates building a parkway along the canal) were almost lost in the throng. In the nine weeks since Justice Douglas (who wants the canal area left undefiled) challenged the Post editors to take the hike with him (TIME, Feb. I) and thus see the error of their ways, all sorts of volunteers had joined up for the expedition...
Next day, papers and politicians in his native Quebec told the Prime Minister the political score. Editorialized L'Action Catholique: "It will always be too soon to recognize Communist China." The Montreal Gazette pointed out that "Canada will not fall into the error of suggesting that the Communist government of China represents a free choice of the people...