Word: fiascoes
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...Dixon-Yates "fiasco," which "the Government initiated . . . and defended for some 19 months and then abandoned and repudiated in the face of political attack by the partisans of socialized power, even though the preceding Administration had executed two similar contracts which were not as advantageous...
NAVY'S DEMON JET FIGHTER, which was a $200 million flop with underpowered Westinghouse engines, is finally getting airborne. Six planes with Allison engines have passed flight tests and joined the fleet. The Navy, which was sharply criticized by a House subcommittee for its part in the fiasco, along with Planemaker McDonnell, now thinks all the bugs are licked, will spend another $55 million for more Demons...
Lampooning the Vulgar. Powers' talent reaches also outside the rectory. In Blue Island a young suburban housewife's get-acquainted coffee pour turns into a cruel social fiasco when an older woman who has posed as a friend suddenly does a commercial spiel on furniture polish in mid-party, and later presses a collapsible mop on the sobbing hostess as a payoff for the captive customers...
...Eisenhower] has been candid about having to limit himself on his job. Now he asserts that he has for some weeks been fulfilling all the duties of the Presidency. The fact is that he has not. If he had, there would not have been the fiasco about the tanks for Saudi Arabia, nor the Dulles whopper about the Russian defeat and retreat all over the world, nor the deep silence about the mounting race crisis in the South, nor the complete absence of an American policy on Israel and the Middle East. If this is a test of working...
...managed to accomplish its usual odd jobs quietly, and usually efficiently. It succeeded in reorganizing the Class Day Committee, thereby unifying two previous committees and setting up a far more satisfactory election system. During the Spring, the Council took steps to avoid in the future the kind of financial fiasco it was to experience this fall: it initiated a capital found, hoping that Councils eventually will be able to subsist largely on its interest alone, using money collected from students only as emergency aid for undergraduate organizations...