Word: fiascos
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...power, their Communist leaders have tried to make much of so cialist unity, but the effort created only a patina beneath which the old animosities still raged. Last week the patina visibly cracked. When the representatives of the Warsaw Pact countries met, they argued vociferously and unproductively. The fiasco proved with new force what has been clear for a long time: the Warsaw Pact, somewhat like its NATO equivalent, is now an artifact rather than a fact...
...President Johnson took a giant step with the appointment of HEW Secretary Gardner [Jan. 20]. It should be a life time appointment: without him the Great Society would be a fiasco; with him, there is hope. God help us if this post ever again becomes a political sop. ROBERT W. CARSON, M.D. Salt Lake City Sir: Secretary Gardner's comments about top executives who cannot tolerate first- class men around them illustrate what is subconscious knowledge among supervisors and employees in business and Government. The symptoms of "injelititis or palsied paralysis" are best described by C. Northcote Parkinson...
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...
Back in the 1950s, Steelman Henry J. Kaiser put out a funny little car known as the Henry J. It was a fiasco that is still vividly recalled by Henry J.'s son Edgar, 58, who shudders: "I don't want that to happen again." To make sure that it wouldn't, the Kaisers have since confined their automaking to one of the most durable vehicles ever produced: the limited-appeal Jeep. Now, Kaiser Jeep Corp. is cautiously looking to bigger markets. This month it unveils a jazzy new line that Edgar, as president of the parent...
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...