Word: fails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interpretation of a given chart that determines whether an astrologer is adjudged good, mediocre or bad. And it is here that astrology's scientific pretensions are tested, and fail. If astrology works in any way other than intuition on one side and faith plus hope on the other, the key question for modern man is "How?" The how of things seldom bothered the Babylonians, for whom a mountain might fly through the air or the sun stand still. Later it was assumed that some kind of emanations issued from heavenly bodies to affect the characters and destinies of men. When...
...sponsor job retraining and black-capitalism projects. Congressional Democrats consider the idea a "backdoor raid" on the Treasury, a disguised form of Government spending. Some businessmen also fault the incentives. Ben Heineman, president of Northwest Industries and a Democrat, fears that if business were to receive tax subsidies but fail to root out social problems, it "could be set up as the goat of the next ten years." That is precisely the risk that businessmen run when working in Washington. The greater their voice in setting national policy, the more they will share the credit for U.S. triumphs...
Former Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg told an enthusiastic first-year law class yesterday that he favors an honors-pass-fail grading system for law schools...
Goldberg was in Cambridge to judge the finals of the Ames Competition at the Law School last night. He volunteered his views on pass-fail before about the 1952 steel plant seizures in an afternoon class on Development of Law and Legal Institutions...
Eight members of the separate group of first-year students which drafted a report calling for pass-fail grading at the school attended the first regular meeting of the new Faculty committee on grades Thursday...