Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S article regarding the National Educational Television program on the plight of migrant farm workers [Feb. 16] contains a serious error. Huelga! is not a film about Mexicans working in California. It is a film that depicts a struggle to improve the wages and working conditions of U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. They are among the more than 6,000,000 Mexican American citizens who pay taxes, fight and die in Viet Nam and send their children to U.S. schools...
...well coordinated, as strong as they were. I mean I think the American military command in South Vietnam has suffered from what one newsman called an enormous dose of self-deceit. They had begun to believe their own statistics, which is terribly dangerous when the statistics are fundamentally in error. There was no sign that these attacks were expected. Americans were on leave all over the country. The South Vietnamese Army was spread out going home...
...West, and especially the U.S., has no alternative but to accept the Soviet challenge on the seas, because the welfare of the U.S.?and of the entire free world?is so solidly tied to the sea and to the untrammeled flow of trade. It would be a historic error if a nation as powerful as the U.S. allowed a crisis elsewhere, no matter how troublesome, to distract it from its determination to retain the mastery of the sea that Admiral Gorshkov is so anxious to wrest from...
Watson describes his own shortcomings of laziness and lack of direction; his narrow escape from physical attack by a female crystallographer when he challenged her theories; the abrasive personality of talented Co-worker Crick; an incredible high school-level error by brilliant Chemist Linus Pauling that temporarily threw him off course, enabling Watson and Crick to win the DNA race; the distraction of wine and popsies at Cambridge University, where much of the great work was carried out. Burdened by the complex details of DNA research, Double Helix does not quite close the gap between C. P. Snow...
...Deans' refusal to delineate what punishments will be meted out for what offenses, however, constitutes a serious error in judgment. Exercising misguided paternalism, they argue that any formulation regarding punishments will be seen by students as threatening. The opposite is true. Under the Deans' plan, students will once again be forced to second-guess the administration over the consequences of their acts. But the absence of a clear-cut definition of punishments turns the usually sober act of civil disobedience into an undignified gamble. Students have a right to know what punishment they must weigh against the dictates of their...