Word: errors
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Soule said later that it was impossible to determine the cause of the accident, but he added that it might have been due to a human error and not to a failure of the equipment...
Comedies of error have also plagued OEO. After North Tonawanda, N.Y., School Superintendent Maurice Friot requested funds for a year-round Head Start program, OEO officials demanded considerable additional information, including how many men in the area had been rejected by draft boards. Inasmuch as Head Start deals with four-and five-year-olds, Friot thought this an unreasonable demand, protested to Washington. OEO withdrew the question. A more pointed criticism was leveled recently by the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, which reported that the OEO is now giving the 100 poorest counties in the U.S. less anti-poverty money...
...That's humiliating!" roared Lyndon Johnson when he read press reports that he had been publicly snubbed by a girl friend. To convince newsmen of their error, he asked her straight out before witnesses in his office: "Who do you love?" Courtenay Valenti, 2½, planted both feet firmly and bellowed on cue: "I love Prez...
...Piety based on error is indefensible," says Father John Lawrence McKenzie, and the error that he refers to is the fundamentalist misreading of Scripture. A witty and outspoken Jesuit scholar from Indiana, McKenzie considers it his right and duty to set his fellow churchmen straight about the Bible, which was not open to critical study by Roman Catholics until Pius XII encouraged it in his 1943 encyclical on Scriptural studies. In so doing, McKenzie, at 55, has become the nation's most controversial and quotable Catholic theologian-perhaps because there is all of a sudden so much...
Matter of Conscience. The Index is a product of the Council of Trent's counter-reforming zeal to protect Catholics against Protestant error. The first Index was published in 1559; it gradually grew into an impressive reader's non-guide to literature that might endanger faith or morals. By the 18th century, it was something of a sign of excellence to be listed; among the condemned classics of the Index are Montaigne's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and the works of Descartes, Hume, Hobbes and Voltaire...