Word: fiascos
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...situation at Princeton has changed in the past year--it has changed enough for people there to adopt an attitude of cautious optimism, but not enough for critics of the club system to believe that Bicker represents anything but an extremely undesirable system. For, while last February's fiasco may well have overemphasized certain aspects of the Bicker problem, the current superficial success cannot help obscuring the many remaining defects...
...role of the sophomore Bicker Committee is nothing extra-ordinarily new; the group just operated more smoothly. There was better co-ordination, and the clubs--chastened no doubt by last year's fiasco--co-operated by sending in their bid lists promptly. "100%" was achieved, but not without anxious moments for the officials in charge and not without heartache and ruptured friendships for the sophomores. Success by Bicker's standards, in short, does not make Bicker a wholly desirable thing, and most Princetonians, from Interclub Committee Chairman David J. Callard on down, will readily admit...
...opening of Squaw Valley Lodge on Thanksgiving Day, 1949, was a memorable fiasco. Cushing had to hire strikebreakers when his union workmen struck the week of the opening, hooked up plumbing himself. Justine hurriedly summoned the domestic couple from their New York home, pressed a friend into service as a chambermaid. One woman guest arrived early, found Cushing still at work on the plumbing. Snarled Alec: "Madam, come back in three hours, and we'll be ready. Meanwhile, don't bother me." That night everything went wrong. There was no dinner until 10. Only one toilet was working...
PRINCETON, N.J.--Bicker, the annual eating club selection period, began last Wednesday, with the Princeton community anxiously hoping to avoid a repetition of last winter's fiasco...
...planes) followed for its second plane, the F2H Banshee. What almost proved McDonnell's undoing was No. 3, an ambitious supersonic carrier fighter called the F3H Demon. It proved too heavy for its Navy-specified Westinghouse engine (in itself a problem child), and turned into a $265 million fiasco for the Navy (TIME, Nov. 7, 1955). The setback would have crippled many companies, but McDonnell kept arguing that the plane was basically sound, proved it with a more powerful Allison J-71 engine which made the Demon so hot that the Navy eventually boosted its orders to $450 million...