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Stanley A. Karnow '47, former Far East correspondent for the Washington Post and NBC news special correspondent, said, "The biggest blunder [in Vietnam] was our failure to understand the determination and tenacity of the forces against...
...Cohen and ask him about producing a joint issue between the Lampoon and the Chaparral. He agrees and we do all the production out here. The issue is a horrible failure, and we at the Chaparral make off with $300,000 of Lampoon money, all because of Cohen's blunder. He will have lost three times as much as you and you'll be sure to be president...
...Last Days of America (1981)? Both scenarios have, for the moment, been upstaged by the selective prosperity of Reaganomics. But like many well-known experts, Erdman continues to prosper by being wrong. His writing career was in fact launched by an international banking blunder. That was in 1970, when he was vice chairman of the United California Bank in Basel, where officials participated in some ruinous commodity trades. The Swiss government concluded that he had transgressed the country's financial code and threw him in jail for ten months...
...them all? Knightley's candidate is Kim Philby, the KGB's mole in British intelligence who set up the SIS's anti-Soviet division, coordinated activities with the CIA and so could convey details of the West's counterspy activity to the Kremlin. Philby, exposed by a KGB blunder, was able to escape to Moscow but not before he came within a hair of becoming "C," the chief of the SIS and, according to Knightley, "the most accomplished spy ever...
...destruction of Les Halles rallied the preservationists. The inadequacies of Beaubourg fed a mood of doubt about "radical" museum techniques. By the early '70s it was clear to the men of the Elysee that razing the Gare d'Orsay would be a major vote-losing blunder. The Gare d'Orsay stayed, Pompidou died, and Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the new President, inherited the problem...