Word: fiascos
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...issues of war and peace, Eisenhower justified their faith. Though his Administration laid plans for the Bay of Pigs operation, leaving an enormous problem for its successor, it is unlikely that Ike, the meticulous technician, would have allowed the sloppy staff work that resulted in J.F.K.'s Cuban fiasco. And he would probably not have reacted as massively as Lyndon Johnson did in the Dominican Republic. By comparison, the U.S. intervention in Lebanon was refined and precise...
Although China has scarcely recovered from the Great Leap Forward and the more recent ravages of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the rhetoric today-"walking on two legs," "flying leap," "new leap"-is virtually identical with the admonitions of the earlier fiasco. As was the case then, agriculture will have to bear the main burden...
...Hooray for Richard Nixon! He has survived presidential defeat in 1960, his personal nadir in the 1962 California Governor's race, the 1964 Republican fiasco, and even L.B.J., to reunite the Republican Party and become President. Political shades of Horatio Alger...
...years can provide emotional fire for the audience if all the parts of the production function properly. The happy news at the Loeb this week is that director George Hamlin has seen to it that everything about his Promise is right; a production that could have been a fiasco (as this play was in its Broadway version last year) is an often chilling piece of theatre instead...
Dunster finished on a high note, also, as Bo Bohannon's ball club rolled over Eliot 28-7 and demolished Kirkland 61-7. In the Kirkland fiasco, flankerback Pete Kaiser tallied three times to highlight the game, which was ended prematurely by a prudent referee...