Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, some 500 members of a Coalition for an Open Convention discussed means of trying to keep delegates uncommitted. Should they fail to block Humphrey, some of the coalitionists may work for establishment of a fourth party or switch to Rockefeller if he wins the G.O.P. nomination. Mc Carthy has hinted that he may participate in a fourth-party drive but insists that he would not lead...
...primarily peopled by an elite, neither it nor the society that supports it can be significantly transformed. At present only 16% of the students who finish secondary school go on to higher education (compared with 40% in the U.S.) and of those who do enter the university, 43% fail to graduate...
...been toward activism. This view, complains Justice John Harlan, a Frankfurter man, "is that every major social ill in this country can find its cure in some constitutional 'principle' and that this court should 'take the lead' in promoting reform when other branches of government fail...
Commercial Credit is confident that Loew's tender offer, which expires at the end of this week, will fail to attract enough stock to win control. But in one sense, Loew's stands to win even if it loses. The takeover struggle has sent Commercial Credit's stock soaring, with the result that Loew's last week showed a paper profit of more than $20 million on its holding in the company...
Help & Conspiracy. Ray's elusive odyssey could not fail to suggest that he had had help. Where did the money come from (at times he flashed a roll of $20 bills)? This, of course, galvanized the artisans of conspiracy theories...