Word: errors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accuracy. Even under ideal launching conditions, missile men admit an intermediate missile is unlikely to hit closer than a quarter of a mile from the bull's-eye. If determinations of the target's direction and the ship's position are slightly off, the error can be disastrously larger. What makes the problem particularly difficult on shipboard is that the launching platform is continually moving...
...tutors what forms must be filled out and in what number, but large numbers of graduate students have little knowledge of the broad concepts behind tutorial, how they work in practice, or what techniques are effective. They are thus left in a position of finding out by trial and error, or, as is more likely, not finding...
Your smug claim to omniscience is so damn nauseating. Eisenhower-Nixon's re-election meant that "a new political generation had come of age with promising concepts of how Government ought to be run." I'm happy to be associated with those apostles of error in Government affairs: Adlai Stevenson, John Kennedy, George Kennan and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt...
...whole uniformed army of reformers had marched into peasant areas, declared martial law, stripped tiny landholders of their farms, and shipped thousands off to prison or death indiscriminately. When its harvest turned out to be only unrest and barren rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist North stepped ashore in free South Viet Nam to tell a fuller story of the anti-Red uprisings...
...interested to see in your Oct. 22 issue a picture of a "burning taxi and cremated driver in Hong Kong." I wish to point out a small error in your description in connection with this gruesome picture. Actually, the badly burnt man whose left hand is pinned beneath the burning taxi was one of the rioters and not the taxi driver. The lucky taxi driver managed to fight his way out of the burning car and later out of the hostile crowd of rioters. I also had a very close shave that day at the same spot. I blundered into...