Word: fiascos
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...time when the party needs, above all else, a united effort of its moderate and liberal elements if it is to survive the conservative fiasco, Mr. Nixon chooses to vent his spleen on Governor Rockefeller, who would not sacrifice principle with Mr. Nixon's gay abandon...
After what Band Director James Walker termed "a fiasco" at the Massachusetts game, reports circled about Cambridge that the Band would alter the format of its traditionally humorous half-time presentation. But this is no more than ugly rumor. According to Mr. Walker, the emphasis will still be on humor. The only pressure put upon the Band was in the form of demands that it improve the quality not the content of their performances...
...relations with China had allowed a dispute to swell into uncomradely hostility. He had planned to stage a climactic meeting of the world's Communist parties in Moscow this December to condemn the Chinese, but the fraternal parties dragged their feet so that the meeting threatened to be a fiasco. Another terrible defeat was the disintegration of Soviet power over European Communism culminating in the Italian party's declaration of independence, the formerly abject French party's similar declaration, and the virtual revolt of the heretofore grovelling Rumanians...
...course even fewer will realize that anti-poverty is undersalaried and hence will be undernourished. That the $495 million appropriation is less than the $15 billion spent on the RS-70 bomber fiasco alone. That the appropriation cannot possibly extend the proposed benefits of job-training, education, financial aid, and domestic Peace Corps to the 35 million men, women, and children whose per capita income was only $590 in 1962 (against $1900 per capita for the nation as a whole). And that the benefits themselves are not enough...
...flying missions, a spokesman admitted. But he hastily added that Americans would not be used again. This seemed accurate enough, for Dearborn and Coney last week headed back to Leopoldville to help train replacements-a dozen anti-Castro Cuban volunteers, most of them survivors of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, who have gone to the Congo to provide some kind of air support for Adoula's faltering army. Within a week, they will head east toward the fighting zones...