Word: erraticism
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Brazil's ever emotional and sometimes erratic President Jânio Quadros outdid himself last week. "I have been beaten by forces against me, and so I leave the government," he cried. He resigned the presidency, and flew off back to his native Sao Paulo. He left the president...
Early last year, collectivization was finally completed in a frenzied, three-month drive that sent thousands of farmers fleeing to the West and damaged even further East Germany's limping food production. Today no East German goes hungry, but his grocery supplies are at best erratic. Although formal rationing...
Soft Bed in Berlin. Instead, the broadcasts convinced Britain's government that Jeeves's erratic inventor had turned traitor. To repudiate Wodehouse, choleric William Connor-author of the Daily Mirror's Cassandra column-was drafted by the Minister of Information. In a virulent attack broadcast by the...
The St. Lawrence Seaway is an engineering masterpiece designed to produce economic miracles. It hasn't quite. In the confident hope that a deepwater channel would churn up an international trading boom in the North American heartland, Canada and the U.S. sank $442 million into the Seaway. Last week...
High Jump. Boston University's erratic John Thomas is sometimes at his best, sometimes at his worst when the competition is close. It will be closer than ever at both the N.C.A.A. and the A.A.U. meets. Southern California's Bob Avant became the eighth 7 ft. high jumper...