Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somehow he persuaded the Kremlin to forgive his error; perhaps the black mark against him was erased by the smooth and effective way in which he (with Rudolf Slansky's help) engineered the Communist coup of 1948 against worn-out Eduard Benes and disillusioned Jan Masaryk. After that, all Gottwald had to do was suppress his rivals and keep Moscow happy, both of which he managed fairly well. But Moscow has not been 100% happy, for Czechoslovakia, a highly industrialized and once prosperous nation, has been in deepening economic crises for the past five years...
...although Bill Dennis scored 20 points to bring his total for the year to 403, he did not set the Harvard single season's record. An unfortunate error in the official Ivy League record book had the mark as George Hauptfuhrer's 394. The record is 428, set by John Rockwell...
Your March 2 article, under the most truthful title "Democracy Wins," gives an excellent evaluation of the meaning and outcome of the Austrian election, but it contains an error as to why the elections were brought about. You state that "the election became necessary when the Socialists bolted [Chancellor] Figl's coalition because they felt that they could not accept rearmament at the expense of their social-welfare program." As TIME has often pointed out, there can be no rearmament in Austria, which has been occupied by American, British, French and Russian troops for more than seven years...
Wisconsin's Larry Smith wanted to know if there shouldn't be some sort of confession of America's error in signing the wartime agreements. Replied Dulles: "Confession is always good for the soul." But the place for confession, he said, "is in the privacy of communion with one's God. I do not think a resolution which we want to vibrate around the world is the place for confession...
...Opposition. They soon discovered the error of their judgment. Young Bob measured up to the La Follette tradition, but in his own way. He baited Cal Coolidge for not doing enough to aid the farmers. He attacked Herbert Hoover's Treasury Secretary Andy Mellon for cutting taxes. In 1931, alarmed by mounting unemployment, he warned: "Congress should devote its energies ... to the enactment of a relief program . . . The time has come for Congress to assert its leadership." Young Bob soon took his place in the G.O.P. opposition with such towering progressives as Hiram Johnson and George Norris...