Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shortly before noon on March 1, 1964, a four-engine Constellation operated by California's Paradise Airlines smashed into a snow-covered mountainside near Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border. All 85 aboard were killed. Now, after a 16-month investigation of the crash, the Civil Aeronautics Board...
LATE in 1962, White House Aide Theodore C. Sorensen relayed to President John Kennedy a request that a "distinguished author" be allowed to see the files on the U.S.-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion that had ended in disaster about a year and a half before. Kennedy refused. "This isn...
Kennedy learned a lot from the disaster. "The impact of failure," says Schlesinger, "shook up the national security machinery," and Sorensen adds that it brought about "basic changes in personnel, policy and procedures." But Sorensen also quotes Kennedy as lamenting long after the event: "All my life I've...
World War I changed all that. Hesse protested publicly against the Kaiser's policies, suffered an emotional breakdown, was cured by a pupil of Switzerland's Carl Jung, and in 1919 published Demian, the story of a young man's struggle for identity that electrified a generation...
His "philosophy of running," as he calls it, is simple: "I want to win at all costs. I have the killer instinct. But I do differ from most trackmen. Two seconds after the race, win or lose, I don't care any more. Losing encourages me to do better...