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...mines that ended with old-regime troops shooting down many miners. But it is an M.N.R. article of faith that the mines' tin-baron owners and the government they dominated provoked the massacre. Moving to the kill, Lechin got up a convention resolution denouncing Guevara for "inexact and tendentious statements." Siles, who could lose the next election without Lechin's support, signed it; so did Paz Estenssoro. Guevara had no choice but to resign...
...careful driver who rates a fellow motorist as "nuts" for honking his horn as soon as the light changes to green is probably right, though medically inexact. Alan Canty, psychologist for Detroit's traffic court, spelled it out in more technical terms at a National Safety Council meeting in Chicago last week: "The fellow who blasts his horn to bully his way through traffic, the fellow who wants to race you in a traffic-light getaway, and the smart-aleck who defies traffic regulations are selfish . . . and egocentric individuals...
Even though the Budapest Quartet had an off-day, it was able to give an exciting and often brilliant performance. Occasional wrong notes, inexact pick-ups, and tonal aberrations made it all too clear that Messrs. Roisman, Gorodetzky, Kroyt, and Schneider were not in top form last Sunday afternoon, but their interpretive mastery, their ability to immerse themselves in the music they play, brought cheers and foot-stamping from the capacity audience in Sanders Theatre...
...growth of military knowledge can be based, and to accompany it by two indispensable additions; first, such a general education as educated men find necessary for intelligent intercourse with one another; and second, inculcations of a set of virtues, admirable always, out indispensable in a soldier. Men may be inexact or even untruthful in ordinary matters and suffer as a consequence only the disesteem of their associates or the inconveniences of unfavorable litigation, but the inexact or untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his fellow men and with the honor of his government, and it is therefore no matter...
Statistics prove your method inexact...