Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...invited to send representatives as nonvoting delegates. The job of figuring out who should come and in what capacity was left largely to Augustin Cardinal Bea (TIME, July 6), the wise old Jesuit who heads the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. To avoid the diplomatic fiasco that marred the first Vatican Council,*Bea and his assistant, Dutch Msgr. Willebrands, spent long hours conferring with Protestant and Orthodox churchmen, made it clear that invitations would go only to those who wanted to come...
...sheer gaudiness, the Estes mess dramatizes the farm scandal more vividly than ever before. If that dramatization were to result in something really being done about the farm fiasco, who knows but that the U.S. might even owe a vote of thanks to none other than Billie Sol Estes...
...this year, unlike last, Cuba's revolutionaries have very little to congratulate themselves about. The regime still stands -a well-armed dictatorship is not easily overthrown, as the Bay of Pigs fiasco demonstrated. Yet it is a leadership in disarray, increasingly ostracized by its hemispheric neighbors, beset by economic catastrophe and torn by a bitter, not yet settled internal struggle for power...