Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Regarding the ransom paid to Castro for the Bay of Pigs fiasco, should not the label have been "In the Red" rather than "In the Black" [March...
...days after the invasion fiasco, Carlson appeared in Birmingham and informed the airmen's wives that their husbands were lost and presumed dead. He provided few other details. "I had no idea my husband was even down there," recalls Mrs. Wade Gray. "I was looking for him to come home any day." Adding to the Administration cover-up try was Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who last January flatly denied that any Americans had been killed in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Hearing that, Shamburger's mother wrote President Kennedy: "If no Americans were involved, where...
...larger mysteries of the selection fiasco concerns the committee's haste to decide the top berths as compared to its willingness to wait another weekend before giving St. Lawrence and Providence its final blessing...
Reginald Parker's direction is superb. His blocking saves the opening scene from being a talky fiasco, and whenever the dialogue falls down, his elaborate bits of play prevent complete boredom. The direction of the seance scene, a musical chairs game in the dark, is particularly effective. But skillful director and eager cast are not enough. Even Stanislavski directing Otis Skinner could not have completely overcome such glaring defects in their material...
...Rewriting History." Bobby Kennedy's oversimplified statement of the case stirred up strong reactions. In a TV interview, Dwight Eisenhower shrugged off any blame for the fiasco, said that his Administration had contemplated no more than support for a "guerrilla type of action" in the Cuban mountains. (At least two plans had been talked up in the Eisenhower days-a guerrilla type of action, and a direct invasion with U.S. air and logistics support. The final decision fell to Kennedy...