Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really growing relative to the population. After massive researches, the President's Crime Commission admits that crime trends cannot be conclusively proven out by available figures. According to FBI reckoning, crimes of violence have risen about 35% so far in the 1960s. But these figures fail to consider two important factors: population growth and changes in crime reporting. Experts believe that part of the apparent increase is caused by the fact that each year the police grow more thorough-and the poor are less reluctant-about reporting crime that previously went unrecorded. Says Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang, president...
...conferences and workshops would center on such topics as evaluation of testing procedures, student faculty interchanges, grading systems, according to Steven Mazer '69, organizer of the project. Mazer also plans to include such controversial subjects as pass-fail, expansion of independent study, and practical hours in the discussions...
...press in the U.S. He has led the drive to provide author-professors with better editing as well as better contracts and royalties. Shugg has also installed computer billing and full-time coast-to-coast salesmen, written eyecatching ads that are more seductive than sedate. Although most university presses fail to turn a profit, the Chicago Press has made $500,000 in the past ten years...
...play, being a Renaissance-styled script, has other symmetrically balanced pairs in its cast. The young lovers Demetrius (John Cunningham) and Lysander (Ted Graeber?) are admirably matched, the crisp delivery of the former matching the sonorous timbre of the latter. It is not their fault that they fail to convey much individuality; Shakespeare was interested in their situations, not their personalities...
...battle against Israel. Almost without exception, their leaders reject Israeli peace terms, swear that they will neither negotiate with the Israelis nor recognize their existence. Last week, in the face of devastating defeat, the Arabs were quoting to each other an old saying by Mao Tse-tung: "Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, but fight on to final victory...