Word: fiascos
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Inevitably the Second Coming at Twelvepalms is a fiasco, attended largely by crackpots ("You know, the ones who write books about their trips to Venus"). No one scorns them more than Brown. But, like them, he cannot give up his obsession. "I'll save (I will) this apple world," he says at last, "this sweet nut, this beauty, beauty. Ah, listen, hear the bugle blow. Beleaguered pioneers, hold out! Only hold...
...criticism, McGeorge more than Bill. Because of his deep involvement in foreign policy and his closeness to the President, State Department types call McGeorge "the usurper" and "Rover boy." Three years in Washington have mellowed and humbled him somewhat-he was particularly shaken by the Bay of Pigs fiasco, a project he backed wholeheartedly-but some acquaintances still complain of his intellectual arrogance, and one official refers to him as "the coldest fish around." At the Pentagon, Bill is occasionally accused of a lack of imagination and a Brahmin disdain for his colleagues, but that is a minority view...
Chasing the Men. After the fiasco, Russian Coach Gabriel Korobkov mildly suggested that some U.S. athletes seemed to be in need of "a good training." He undoubtedly meant a good spanking. Serenely overconfident, the U.S. men were ill-prepared for the ruggedness of the competition. The U.S. girls logged more time playing cards in the hotel lobby than they did practicing on the track, more time chasing the U.S. men than chasing the Russian women. They refused to take orders, lounged around listening to records, complained loudly about their rooms, their food and, oddly enough, about the fact that...
...rising, Sean was the youngest rebel of them all, spent four days on the roof with a rifle, waiting for the British to mount an old-fashioned infantry charge. He says wryly: "I'm afraid we had rather naive ideas about modern warfare." When British shells ended the fiasco, 15 Irish leaders were shot. Young Lemass was taken prisoner and released within a month, presumably because of his age. According to cherished, if apocryphal Dublin legend, "the cops gave him a kick in the arse and told him to go home...
...John Kennedy to make good on a 1960 campaign promise to create the corps, he tapped his brother-in-law-and Shriver dodged. "But he told me," says Shriver, "that everyone in Washington seemed to think that the Peace Corps was going to be the biggest fiasco in history, and it would be much easier to fire a relative than a friend...