Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possibly ignoring not only the differences between the two wars but between the two peoples and their ethnic characteristics. At any rate, a key element in the Vietnamization program may be time. If Richard Nixon, in response to domestic pressure, feels compelled to accelerate U.S. withdrawals, the program could fail. If the pullout is gradual, it might work. "It is a very hopeful idea," said a Pentagon official of Vietnamization. "It is the only one that will let us get out of there eventually. But please, Jet's not go too fast...
...Hitler's Reich and the Allied mopping-up operation can make for depressing reading. Unhappily. FitzGibbon's book will probably find few readers from the one group in the U.S. that could profit most from its perspectives-the more violent and mostly youthful would-be revolutionaries who fail to see that indulging in millennial fantasies of total cauterizing power is likely to be followed by immediate realities of sheer hell...
...dean of the Law School, appointed a committee headed by Robert E. Keeton, professor of Law, to investigate the School's grading system. That committee's report, approved by the faculty, gave each first-year student the option of having his grades reported simply as pass or fail, in four categories, or in the standard nine-category system...
When the time came for the 538 first-year students to decide how they (as well as employers receiving transcripts) would receive their grades, 179 chose pass-fail, 75 chose the four-level system and the rest stayed with the nine categories. Even those who chose pass-fail may elect later to receive their grades again, this time in four or nine categories...
Some members of this first-year class fear the faculty will try to return to conventional grading. And they're not even happy with last spring's compromise. First-year student Ed Berlin said, "The system today is inadequate incorporating the evils both of pass-fail and of regular grades...