Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown afloat is an unquenchable Tammy Grimes. Starting off, in potato-sack finery, half tomboy and half troll, she roars and soars ahead with her magically rusty vocal cords, her magically uncombed look, her meltable rock-candy hardness, now executing a slow, sneakered, ragamuffin saraband, now after a Denver fiasco ripping into an exuberant barefoot dance, now smashing a chair over a stranger's head, now reacting in Paris to her first taste of snails: "With that sauce, you could eat erasers." Thanks to her, Molly is dripping but undrowned...
...86th Congress passed away whimpering. The short, post-convention summer session ordered by the Democratic leadership to make campaign hay turned into a Democratic fiasco. Bill after bill was either stopped dead or hacked to pieces by a disciplined coalition of Republicans and conservative Southern Democrats. Dick Nixon would not have to explain away any awkward presidential vetoes during his campaign, because President Eisenhower had not had to use his veto.* Although on adjourning Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn pointed with customary pride, they could not camouflage the failure...
Clearly Mao Tse-tung was challenging Nikita Khrushchev as the ideological leader of the Communist world. The downing of the U.S. spy plane and the Paris summit fiasco have filled Chinese newspapers with cocky cries of "I told you so" and open assertions that, whatever happens to the rest of the world, Communist China is big enough, to survive nuclear war. At a recent meeting of the Red-led World Trade Union Federation in Peking, the Chinese Communists described themselves as the champions of repressed peoples against the "satisfied" or the "have" nations, in which category they included Russia. They...
...Imposing Confederation." The pace was set, in majestic phrases, by the leader most often accused of undermining allied unity. In a television report to the French people on the summit fiasco, Charles de Gaulle declared: "France intends as far as she is concerned to be ready to defend herself. This means, first of all, that she shall remain an integral part of the Atlantic alliance." And behind the shield of the Atlantic alliance, emphasized De Gaulle, the nations of Western Europe "must organize to achieve their joint power and development...
Wearing an Albatross. Financial men view Minnesota-born Dick Krafve with some reservations because of the Edsel fiasco, but he wears his albatross cheerfully. Says he of the Edsel: "It was a matter of timing. If we had gotten it out sooner it would have been tremendous." Both he and Adams are convinced that Raytheon can be reorganized at great savings, are on the lookout for profitable companies Raytheon can buy into...