Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit. For what has happened should never have been allowed to happen and those who are responsible for the management of our relations with South America must answer to the charge of gross incompetence. We must fix and we must correct the causes that led our officials into this fiasco -into what it would not be exaggeration to call a diplomatic Pearl Harbor...
...Flops & Fiascos. In the first half of 1957 alone, East Germany lost 7,400,000 man-hours because of a lack of raw materials, broken-down machinery, and all-round bad planning. The Ulbricht obsession with increasing exports has had some preposterous results. Items: ¶EastGermany offered to build oil tanks for Sweden, even though its industries were totally unprepared to produce them. The tanks cracked, some collapsed, and the whole venture became such a fiasco that its director committed suicide. ¶East German experts offered to build water works in the Sudan. Pipes and drills were shipped...
...score, 1957 was a year of retreat and disarray for the West. For Britain and France, the U.S. allies who fill out the world's Big Four, the year's theme was a recessional. Sir Anthony Eden, physically sick and spiritually drained after the fiasco at Suez, resigned as Prime Minister. His successor put out a White Paper proclaiming that Britannia was done with ruling the waves, was thinning out the proud red line of far-flung posts on which the sun never set, and withdrawing to a more realistic stance as a tidier, tighter nuclear power. Guy Mollet...
...Space Frontier." Out of the uproar at week's end some sort of perspective was forming on the TV3 fiasco. Items...
Responsibility for the general fiasco rests with nearly everyone but the set designer, John Beck, whose amazingly careful stone walls and interesting extended floor areas triumph over the standard limitations of Agassiz. The sets were helped by fine, if not always timely lighting. It is a shame to waste such a fine background...