Word: error
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After ten years of this, both members of the marriage see the error of their ways. As Lorabelle settles down, Henry takes wing. Together they build a house and a family; together they remain till the end. Yet till the end she remains a romantic and he a cynic. "In all that he did," the narrator concludes, "he could see himself striving toward a condition of love or truth or goodness that did not exist. But he stayed with it because he knew there wasn't anything else...
...were not doing enough to improve trade terms with poorer countries of the world. Then there was Viet Nam. "To day," he said, "the pressure of events is remorselessly leading toward a major war, while efforts to reverse that trend are lagging disastrously behind. In my view, the tragic error is being repeated of relying on force and military means in a deceptive pursuit of peace...
Lenin's prohibition of private ownership, declared Izvestia, applied only to the bad old days when capitalists were exploiting the workers. But now that there are no longer exploiters and exploited, "whoever thinks personal property means private ownership is in grave error." In fact, explained Izvestia in a wild ideological leap, "there is no gap between private and public ownership. Personal property is just another form of common ownership, both belonging together like the roots and leaves of the trees...
That is a lesson the railroads never really applied, and the Civil Aeronautics Board means to see that the airlines do not repeat the error. Though some critics insist that airline fares should be slashed across the board, the CAB so far has settled for approving almost any cut-rate special fare, and the prospects that this policy will change look small. Grumbles Delta Chairman C. E. Woolman: "There's everything but a fare for left-handed people with large heads...
...cites two unpublished FBI reports that seem to cast doubt on the single-bullet theory. Those reports said that the first bullet did not pass through Kennedy's body at all. But Epstein ignores the fact that the FBI has long since acknowledged that it was in error on that point. The reports were based on inadequate information, hurriedly collected before the autopsy was completed...