Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writes Bettina in Bettina, a history of her five years with the late Aly, the cinema was one of the few places where Aly could get a decent sleep. He was a compulsive gambler, a lover of outhouse humor and intricately vulgar practical jokes. "But never once did he fail to treat me as a wife," says Bettina of Aly, who never did get around to marrying...
...this day, his most prized possession is a baseball he had autographed by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig one hot summer day when he was nine years old. In high school, he handled mathematics with such facility that he decided to study engineering−in case he should fail to make the grade in baseball...
...model. It declares that any school is "racially imbalanced" if more than 50% of the enrollment is nonwhite (but not vice versa), and calls for an annual head count to check the balance. Where an imbalance exists, local school authorities must devise plans to correct it. If they fail to do so, the state not only can, but must cut off state aid to that district...
...Katzenbach gently squeezed the trigger. Federal examiners, all of them Southerners who were employed by the U.S. Civil Service Commission, were sent into each designated county to open offices and begin processing applicants. Their instructions were clear and un mistakable: Register all Negroes except convicted felons or those who fail to meet age or residence requirements. "All Negroes?" a newsman asked Katzenbach. "Negroes who can't read or write?" "Absolutely," he replied. "Treat them the same as whites. If they have been registering illiterate whites, then register illiterate Negroes." Katzenbach's instructions were fol lowed to the letter...
...invested in each of the students this summer will bring big rewards in the saving of otherwise wasted talent and in the kids' own dis covery of their potentialities. Of the first 50 students at Western Washington, Instructor Richard Cobb says: "Ten are going to fail, one should have been sent home the first week, and seven of them would have made it without us. But for 32, we've been a godsend." Yet most of the students still must survive a year or more of high school back in their home environment, where this summer...