Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost all the University's elementary language courses will be wide open to pass-fail students next fall...
...Germanic and Romance Language Departments voted at separate meetings this week not to limit the number of pass-fail students who enroll in basic German, French, Spanish, and Italian. Similar decisions on other Harvard courses aren't likely to follow soon--since the fourth-course pass-fail legislation approved by the Faculty Dec. 5 leaves the option of limiting passfail enrollment open to individual course instructors...
...recipient of the heart. Obviously he is close to death, or such drastic surgery would not be contemplated. Yet his own heart must be cut out, which is tantamount to killing him, while he still retains vitality enough to withstand the most Draconian of operations. If the transplant should fail, he will certainly die. Thus the surgeons will, in effect, have killed him (as they might in any major operation), no matter how lofty their motive in trying to prolong his life and make it more satisfying...
...Fail-Safe Protection. Since animals seem of little help, surgeons have been forced back on human sources. Here, Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway could offer reassurance from many years of experimental surgery on dogs. A nagging question had been: What about the heart's nerve connections, since these cannot be reestablished in transplant surgery? Dr. Shumway's answer: It doesn't matter. Like practically everything else in nature, the heart has fail-safe protection. It has an internal, independent, electrical "ignition systern" to trigger its beats. This system speeds up in response to outside...
...discontent-until the Watts riots. He did research into the plight of California's poor, first urban, then rural, and the results made him angry. He learned that it was common practice among farmers to pay field hands and migrant workers less than subsistence wages, and fail to provide such minimal accommodations as toilets and running water. After personal inspection of farm areas and migrant-labor camps, he sat down in March 1966 and wrote a 47-page proposal to Sargent Shriver, director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity...