Word: fiascoes
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Later that year (the academic year of the Bay of Pigs fiasco) I began to inquire about the nature of a conscientious objector status. Here began my second break with the posture of representative manhood. Ironically, after being granted a tentative conscientious-objector release from the Marine Officer Program. I decided to rejoin it. This return, however, did not represent a swing of a pendulum from a rebellious position back to a formerly rejected one. Rather, it was the end-product of my study of various radical and dissenting movements in American history, and a rejection on my part...
...drift, and includes such boggling episodes as Scrooge's descent into Hell (which looks to have been inspired by the astronauts' descent toward Jupiter in 2001). The script, music and lyrics are by Leslie Bricusse, whose previous contributions include Dr. Dolittle and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. After this fiasco, Bricusse should become as forgettable as the music he writes. The chorus of one of his tunes from Scrooge runs something like "Thank you very much, thank you very much. Thank you very, very, very much." To which the obvious and inevitable reply should be, "Thanks, but no thanks...
...conservative kingdoms (see map). To fuse them into a single unit would be all but impossible. The closest approach, the 1958 amalgamation of Egypt and Syria into the United Arab Republic, lasted only three years before the Syrians seceded, complaining of Egyptian domination. Nasser's aim after that fiasco was to form a consortium of governments that would remain politically separate but would work together militarily and economically. At the time of his death, he was trying to develop such a complex with the new revolutionary regimes of Libya and the Sudan...
...Fiasco in Three Acts...
...national railways, lunched with seven U.S. railroad presidents. At that time, he recalls, "I remarked that sooner or later they would have to face up to the question of nationalizing American railroads. They all roared with laughter." Last week, in the midst of the Penn Central's financial fiasco, no one was laughing at the idea any more. Transportation Secretary John Volpe warned Congress that if the Administration's bill to guarantee loans for railroads fails to pass, and other roads fall into bankruptcy, the only alternative would be for the Government to nationalize the rails. The Transport...