Word: fiascoes
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...unfortunate effects of the high altitude explosion were wholly unforseen, that the government therefore acted in good faith when it authorized the test, that Van Alllen and other American scientists advised the military defense units of the country to the best of their ability, and that the whole fiasco was a tragic mistake...
Since the day that the Bay of Pigs became a synonym for fiasco, U.S. policy toward Cuba has been based on hope-the hope that Castro's Communism would somehow curl up its toes and die. In its most positive form, that policy aimed at isolating Cuba, both economically and politically. It did not work - for the simple and foreseeable reason that Nikita Khrushchev did not want...
...mankind, and we spent our own resources trying; the space promoters can offer no better excuse for their wild financial orgies than such vacuous blurbs as "space is the future of man," and it costs them nothing to laugh off a fizzle such as the recent $20 million Venus fiasco...
Shortly after President Kennedy's eloquent inaugural, the Gallup poll found that 69% of the U.S. liked the way he was beginning his new job. His popularity soared to a high of 83* in the rally-roundthe-flag spirit that immediately followed the Bay of Pigs fiasco that April, sagged to 71 by July, climbed again in the atmosphere of crisis over Berlin to a second peak of 79 last March. But since Kennedy's celebrated tangle with Big Steel and the Blue Monday that followed, his popularity has slipped. The latest Gallup poll found him back where...
President Kennedy had another reason for shipping Lem Lemnitzer off to Europe. After last year's fiasco at the Bay of Pigs, the President hankered to get Lemnitzer out as head of the Joint Chiefs. Says one ranking Pentagon official: "The President just doesn't find Lemnitzer responsive to his needs." Norstad's resignation gave the President his long-awaited chance to install as the top U.S. man in uniform a tough soldier and incisive military thinker: Maxwell Davenport Taylor, 60, whom Kennedy brought out of retirement after the Cuban disaster to become his personal military adviser...