Word: errors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Direct Nuclear Hit. Little is left to human error. Should no one notice a major development, or should a number of seemingly unrelated minor developments signify trouble, electronic brains set off flashing lights, ring bells, and sound other assorted alarms. On one switch box where alarms are manually triggered, a NORAD operator has already taped a crude sign: "Don't push buttons. It makes a real offensive noise...
...sleight of hand as well, and it did, to be sure, depend rather heavily on some imponderables. For one thing, the President was relying on congressional passage of his various tax programs, which may face some opposition. Beyond that, Government forecasts have averaged an almost 9% error on revenues, more than 6% on spending. This year's budget totals, said a White House aide, are "highly uncertain." As it now stands, the administrative budget, not counting a projected $5.8 billion increase caused by Viet Nam, will rise by $600 million over fiscal 1966. The extra requests for the Great...
Boeing Boeing, by contrast, plows leadenly into every error that Male Companion avoids. Its graceless lechery weighs down a comedy about three airline hostesses who share a Paris flat with Tony Curtis. As a prodigiously oversexed American newspaperman, Tony has obviously never met a deadline, but he does keep busy checking timetables, the better to enjoy, one by one, his "fiancées" from British United (Suzanna Leigh), Lufthansa (Christiane Schmidt-mer) and Air France (Dany Saval). "You don't need a housekeeper-you need a Univac," snaps Tony's maid-of-all-work, Thelma Ritter, who schlumps...
...choice of Westmoreland is outrageous and is offensive to all who work and pray for peace. We need recognition for men of heroic stature in thought and action, not for military mediocrities who achieve incidental prominence through a tragic error of history...
...served on the Massachusetts and New England selection committees, I believe these impressions are somewhat in error. The selection committees received no instruction or intimation, either written or verbal, from the American office of the Rhodes Trust at Swarthmore regarding last year's heavy Harvard representation. The sole criterion now and always is that of selecting the best men in terms of the Rhodes specifications...