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WHILE last week's Vanguard explosion was blamed officially on "loss of thrust," there was no lack of thrusts at the U.S. Newspapers from Mexico City to Moscow, and at home as well, dubbed the dud a stallnik, latenik, flopnik, pfftnik, goofnik. For other press comment, ranging from derision to bitter disappointment, see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES...
Even before the new TV season began, most critics viewed it with alarm. As it unfolded, many saw eye to eye with the Variety headline: NEW TELEVISION SEASON A DUD. Last week the TV industry struck back. Though it had offered little new on the screen, it did come up with some fresh epithets for critics...
...city's top bomb expert, he had Berlin's toughest and most dangerous job-defusing the thousands of unexploded bombs and shells still hidden in the debris of the shattered city. With his close police pal Gerhard Raebiger, he removed fuses from some 8,000 dud bombs, some 10,000 grenades. Through the years of reconstruction he was on call day and night, sometimes working 48 hours at a stretch on some particularly ticklish job. Once, when rubble removers uncovered a nest of three blockbusters smack in the middle of a heavily populated apartment district, he shoveled away...
...western tip of the huge lake far up in Canada's frozen Northwest Territories. The area was littered with natural oil seeps oozing from a rock strata identified as Devonian limestone. But as so often happens when oil-bearing strata touch the surface, the well proved a dud. Disappointed oilmen all but gave up on the formation's outcropping at Great Slave until last fall, when Phillips and Home Oil geologists decided that Imperial had tried to tap Windy Point's Devonian limestone in the wrong place. In a historic gamble, the two companies decided to drill...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft's budget was an unashamed "opportunity" budget, which created new incentives for talented men and enterprising businesses, but Labor's attempt to denounce it as unfair to the "little man" proved a dud. Along with a rise in Macmillan's reputation has come a decline in opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell...