Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The West insists, and rightly, that the commission must proclaim a cease-fire before the 14-power conference begins. It wants no repetition of the Diem Bien Phu disaster: the Geneva Conference in '54 started before the contending armies had agreed to cease fire, and the Communists took advantage of...
As the frescoes show, Theodolinda's hold over her people did not end with her death. In one scene, the Roman Emperor Constantine III (612-641 A.D.) marches into Monza, determined to sweep the Lombards out of Italy. But he pauses long enough to consult a bearded old hermit...
When every other skipper thought the 30-knot Chesapeake Bay Wind to much for spinnakers, Crimson helmsman John Marshall called for his parachute and, despite near disaster, skippered the varsity and a 40-ft. yawl to a stries tie for first with Navy in one of the most amazing last...
The East German aircraft industry was a prestige project ramrodded through in 1954 by Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht himself. Jeering at West German airlines for buying foreign planes, the East Germans poured $150 million into outfitting six plants, which at their peak employed some 26,000 workers turning out Russian...
Waves of cultural outrage have been stirred up by Arthur Miller's film. Anyone who knows a cynical cliche or two, knows what happens when an artist goes to Hollywood. Everyone accepts the fact, with an almost masochistic satisfaction, that Success in American culture really means intellectual disaster.