Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oberdorfer's office. The American Red Cross agreed to act as middleman in the exchange. Justice Department officials approached the trade associations of drug, medical and food industries. Five officials of the American Pharmaceutical Association came to Washington, saw the Attorney General. Referring to the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Bobby said, "My brother made a mistake." and implied that the prisoner exchange would be one way of rectifying...
Unswerving Conviction. The French, who got no help from the U.S. in developing their force de frappe, were quick to crow that Britain's ties with the U.S. had brought it nothing but humiliation. By contrast, bragged French officials, the Skybolt fiasco only vindicated France's decision to develop its own bombs and delivery systems. Thus, though Charles de Gaulle promised to "reflect" on the Polaris offer, there was little likelihood that he would accept any offer that would subject a French force to Allied control...
Naturally, Khrushchev takes none of the blame for the fiasco. Three years ago he found a scapegoat in Kazakhstan Party Boss Nikolai Belyaev, fired him for his "errors." Last week Belyaev's successor, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, was similarly bounced-for "lapses" in his work. For good measure, Moscow also purged the former Premier of the territory from the local party's Central Committee...
Moby Dick is an Orson Welles adaptation, some of it in blank verse, of Melville's novel. Some men tinker with old cars; Orson Welles tinkers with old masterpieces. His 1937 Julius Caesar, in Fascist uniform, was exciting theater. Moby Dick is a fiasco...
...reception in the Palace of Congresses banquet hall, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Nikita Khrushchev presented the picture of a man bouncing back in great style from his own Cuban fiasco. In one of his most dazzling displays of personal diplomacy, he seemed relaxed, relieved and philosophical. "Who won and who lost?" he asked reporters. "Reason won. Mankind won because if there hadn't been reason, then there might not have been this reception, and there might not have been any elections in the U.S." Khrushchev even seemed to concede a U.S. missile lead...