Word: disasterously
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North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong; but the total is less than the $150 billion the U.S. has spent in Viet Nam since 1950. Moreover, the relatively modest Soviet investment in Hanoi's future was made with minimum risk of military confrontation with the U.S. and with loss of...
U.S. naval experts have high respect for the design and firepower of Soviet ships, but the Sixth Fleet has not been standing pat. It has taken on ever more sophisticated landing-guidance and weapons systems, like computerized dive-bombing that allows 20-to 30-ft. accuracy from 4,000 ft...
The truths about Antonioni's work had been plotted out long before his current audience ever had a chance to come in contact with him. So much scorn was directed at his films that until The Passenger opened a couple of weeks ago in New York., he was remembered largely...
Germany was in ruins, the only trace of Hitler was an oil spot on the ground outside his Berlin bunker, Japan was desperately seeking escape from impending disaster, and the atomic bomb was being rushed to completion in the U.S. Harry Truman packed tuxedo, top hat and tails, as he...
Faculty Cut. N.Y.U. could use some of that support. One of the largest private universities in the nation, it has an enrollment of nearly 40,000 students and is just recovering from a brush with fiscal disaster. In 1972 N.Y.U. faced a $7.9 million deficit, and the trustees had to...