Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the opposition will fail seems probable. The opponents, who have banded together in a "Save Our City" committee, seek to raise $100,000 to finance a highway study that they hope will show that the Belt is either unneeded or ill-planned. In addition, they seek to mobilize popular support against the highway. Doing either of these things will be difficult, but even if it does succeed, the prospect of the Inner Belt's being scrapped remains slim. One must reckon with the facts: both state and federal highway officials are highly committed to the road; Gov. John...
...politicians have made corruption a way of life. An amenable Gary mayor can figure on an extracurricular income during his four-year term of $3,000,000 to $6,000,000-all for doing nothing. The only real mistake that a local official can make is to fail to report his graft on his income-tax return...
...from one niggling point to the next. He kept Mrs. Pauling on the stand for hours while he led her through long explanations of awards garnered by her husband. He questioned Pauling himself about his beliefs and actions at interminable length. Justice Samuel J. Silverman was visibly irritated. "I fail to see where this line of questioning will lead. Move along." Finally, last week, the trial came to an abrupt end. Silverman sustained a defense motion to dismiss the suit...
Oscar Handlin, chairman of the History Department, said that all courses should be graded pass-fail because "the course grading system is eccentric. Trying to tell the difference between an A minus and a B plus is pretty silly. It creates the wrong pressures and makes the grade more important than the course...
...grade grubbing and not enough learning in the present system," Rustam Z. Kothavala, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Lowell House, agreed. Kothavala, one of the three Faculty members on the HPC, said that he was "fully in favor of the proposal," and thought that the combination of the pass-fail option with the fifth course would ensure that "people don't use it for roulette...