Word: blunderer
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...South Koreans, 50,000 U.S. troops, and small detachments from Thailand and Turkey. There is still some bloodshed in the 2,000-yd.-wide demilitarized zone on either side of the line. In their ceaseless search for shell casings and scrap metal, South Korean civilians blunder into old but still murderous minefields. Red agents, trying to sneak south, are shot or captured by U.N. patrols. Last November North Korean soldiers raided an unalert U.S. post, lobbed in grenades and killed one G.I., wounded another. "There's glamour in South Viet Nam because you fight there," says a U.S. captain...
...what set off the army explosion was an infamous military blunder. After the long-drawn-out bloodbath of Verdun, an ambitious new commander in chief, General Robert Nivelle, staked his career on a decisive punch through the German lines which, he implied, would end the war in weeks. The fanfare and prepara-:ions were so grand that the Germans mew all about it in advance. Nivelle knew they knew it, but he went ahead anyway. And from April 16 to May 9, 1917, French troops flung themselves against the Germans' barbed wire, entrenched machine guns and presighted artillery until...
...Tactical Blunder. President Kennedy was in no position to repeat his 1962 onslaught against steel. Having shattered business confidence once, he was politically reluctant to do so again. And the steel industry could make a pretty sturdy case for price increases. Its profits last year came to only 4% of sales. New York's First National City Bank recently published a compilation of percentage returns on net assets in various categories of industry, and steel tied meat-packing for last place in a list...
...Quiet. The President might have done better to say nothing at all. By issuing even a mild pronouncement, he needlessly conveyed an impression that he continued to consider himself the ar biter of the industry's price decisions. And tactically, the statement was a blunder: by virtually inviting steel companies to go ahead with "selected price adjustments," he made it virtually impossible to fight later on if he decided that the increases were excessive after...
...Mike Pearson. He had not fought for it, but the tax-free $38,885 Nobel Prize money had given him a small measure of financial independence, and he was willing to take a chance. He had barely begun his new job when he made an almost fatal political blunder...