Word: failed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preserving Natural Beauty Sir: In your story on natural beauty [Sept. 17], you mention the junked car problem but fail to mention that a solution has been found. The metal fragmentizer reduces cars to chunks. In Philadelphia, where a fragmentizer will soon become operational, the prediction is that the junked-car problem will be solved within six months...
...This is not going to be a place of big gates," architect I. M. Pei says of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library that will replace the yard's blacktop and train tracks. "We would fail if the complex is not designed so Harvard students can feel at home...
...CORE has stuck to its non-violent creed while pioneering sit-ins, stand-ins, and other "in" demonstrations, members in Louisiana are often protected by the Deacons, a weapon-carrying Negro group formed for defense purposes. Says Farmer: "If the law enforcement officers of the city, county, and state fail to do their jobs, then people have the constitutional right to defend themselves. We've worked very closely with the Deacons, and though they're separate, it's very comforting to have them around...
Educators' files are filled with records of kids who excelled in IQ tests but who failed to live up to expectations. "A child may score in the 140s and yet be too darned lazy to read a book or do any of the tough groundwork, and he'll fail at school," says the National Merit Scholarship Corporation's John Stalnaker. "Another kid may score much lower in the tests but by sheer devotion to his work, he'll succeed...
...current University of Washington Law Review, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas chides U.S. law reviews for not identifying "special pleaders who fail to disclose that they are not scholars but rather people with axes to grind." Douglas proposes "an editorial policy that puts in footnote No. 1 the relevant affiliations of the author...