Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foredoomed Hope. For Macmillan, already beset by grave political and economic difficulties at home (see THE WORLD), the Sky-bolt decision threatened disaster. He had built his foreign policy around the idea that his nation's "special relationship" with the U.S. gave Britain influence in world affairs out of...
It is in protest against a permanent fact of life, and in itself it has become just such a fact. Says one striking miner: ''These gun thugs call a lot of times during the night and say, 'We're going to blow your house up. You...
Died. Major General John Hamilton Roberts, 70, Canadian commander of the controversial 1942 raid on the German-held resort town of Dieppe; of a heart attack on the Channel Island of Jersey. Planned as a "reconnaissance in force," the raid was a tactical disaster (only 2,500 returned out of...
Last week, only a few months after thalidomide was denounced as the cause of the worst medical disaster in history, the drug was being hailed in Israel as a possible treatment for cancer.
A King-Size Boost. Rupert, who started out as a university chemistry instructor, got into business out of a vague desire to do research into tobacco and to "manufacture something.'' In 1942, with a $40 grubstake, he opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg. Not until after World...