Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIES (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). Henry Fonda as the President in the 1964 film version of Burdick and Wheeler's bestseller, Fail Safe...
...whites because of greater deprivation in his family background. Eighth-graders in Negro slum schools, for example, commonly read at sixth-grade levels. The IQ of the average Harlem pupil drops from 90.6 in the third grade to 87.7 in the eighth grade. An extraordinary 67.5% of all Negroes fail the armed forces' pre-induction mental tests (v. 18.8% of the whites...
...could spend an enjoyable morning strolling through an operating theater or casualty ward of a hospital can fail to have an entertaining and enjoyable time with Choice Cuts, as nasty a piece of fiction as ever came out of France. Authors Boileau and Narcejac have apparently concluded that two hacks joined together will make one writer, and furthermore that parts of seven people stitched together make up one man. Neither assumption is correct...
Beyond this simple innovation, of course, there are some exciting educational possibilities, such as introducing pass-fail grading into the four-course load, or abolishing grades entirely. These possibilities deserve more discussion, and the discussion will benefit from a trial run of the HPC plan...
...Faculty approval, is that its merits will be obscured by undue concern with the real, but certainly surmountable, problems of cost and administration. If many students should decide to take advantage of a free fifth course, Harvard might have to pay for additional staff and facilities, or turn pass-fail students away from courses already filled with "regular" students...