Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modern communications have done much to put them on center stage. Returning from a recent rally on the Berkeley campus, one U.C. coed reported that the demonstration had been a fiasco. "Why," she lamented, "we didn't get a single TV camera!" A more compelling reason for adult angst is that the young seem curiously unappreciative of the society that supports them. "Don't trust anyone over 30," is one of their rallying cries. Another, "Tell it like it is," conveys an abiding mistrust of what they consider adult deviousness...
Yerma means barren in Spanish, and the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater means barren in English. The latest fiasco produced by the team of Herbert Blau and Jules Irving is a work of the late Federico Garcia Lorca, a gifted poet but an inept dramatist. For two hours, without intermission, the heroine Yerma (Gloria Foster) yearns publicly and privately to have a baby. The playgoer comes out of this hot bathos convinced that this Spanish , town could certainly use an adoption agency...
Once the arrests were made and the arsenals confiscated, the Minutemen's founder Robert Bolivar DePugh, 42, who runs the national headquarters in tiny (pop.: 965) Norborne, Mo., disclaimed any involvement with the New York fiasco. "If they were members of the Minutemen, they were working independently," he said, adding that the affair might really have been "a counterplot, .perhaps Government-inspired" to discredit his organization. He added: "I have urged our people not to own weapons." In fact, DePugh and two other men were scheduled to go on trial this week in Kansas City, Mo., on charges...
...Will. After the Yemen fiasco, Phillips took refuge in Oman in 1952 and became a good friend of Sultan Said bin Taimur. He went into the oil business one day when the Sultan, after complaining that he had not found oil like other Middle Eastern rulers, said to Phillips, "And by the will of God we shall have oil, for I am granting you the oil concession for Dhofar." Dhofar, an area the size of Ohio, has not yet produced any oil. But it made Phillips a millionaire, because he divided his 21% interest in the concession into...
...firm never really recovered. While some of the old partners spent 20 years or more honorably paying off their debts from the Kreuger fiasco, the reorganized firm could never rustle up enough cash for the computers and research staffs to compete with such giants as Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith-or, on a somewhat smaller scale, Hayden, Stone. Says Hayden, Stone Chairman Alfred J. Coyle, they "couldn't make the costly effort we make in research-the only way a firm can supply the services customers want...