Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...provides opportunities, then, for people who are just interested in some cash to defray expenses or to make life a little easier and, also, for people who want the satisfaction of running a business, of setting it up and watching it grow or fail. So long as the latter--the smaller but more visible of the two types--continue to imitate the style, thought, action, and affectations of the business world, there will be criticism of the HSA as a group of money-grubbers. But so long as HSA continues to provide interesting, good-paying jobs for students who want...
More Stately Mansions. Watching a Eugene O'Neill play fail is sometimes as awesome as seeing the Titanic sink. More Stately Mansions, however, is more like a becalmed Flying Dutchman on which trapped passengers spend three hours torturing one another and ranting about their fate. On the spacious stage of Los Angeles' elegant Ahmanson Theater, site of the play's U.S. premiere last week, Mansions stays within hailing distance of the playgoer's interest, but it never gets heartbeat close...
Even the most black-thumbed city slicker could hardly fail to grow a bumper harvest of marijuana. The hal lucinogenic weed - which grows wild throughout America in every kind of soil - requires no plowing, fertilizing, harrowing, mulching, weeding, spraying or watering. To raise a crop of dreams, all the would-be "grass" farmer need do is scatter seed some time in the spring, then go off to a love-in for 60 to 80 days. When the female Cannabis sativa bears its resinous flowers, the farmer simply plucks the plant and dries the top portion in the sun, an oven...
...tapered roller-bearing manufacturer. "I can't remember the Rep ever speaking out against anything the Timken family wanted," says a Canton businessman. About the harshest criticism leveled at the Ports mouth (Ohio) Times, according to Editor George W. Stowell, comes from "mothers who are upset when we fail to cover Little League baseball games...
...uses his X-ray equipment on the patient. The person who exposes our children to X rays must have his automobile inspected periodically and must have a driver's license before he can operate it. Yet the X-ray machine he operates may be obsolete and may fail to meet minimum standards, and he may have little or no training or knowledge in how best to operate...