Word: fiascos
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...mighty cubistic boulder on which Joan sits pale and still, like a piteous Prometheus in the midst of her tormentors. The tableau breaks, and the trial, which is the metaphor the action moves in, takes its course. In a matter of moments it is clear that the London fiasco is not to be repeated by Producer Kermit Bloomgarden. For that production Christopher Fry had done a literal translation from the French. For this one Lillian Hellman has cut 43 pages of Anouilh -and ennui. What is left, while faithful to the original in scenic form, has been trenchantly rewritten...
...Washington hearing room last week a House Government Operations subcommittee started to investigate the fiasco of the Navy's F3H1 Demon jet fighters, built by McDonnell Aircraft and powered by Westinghouse engines. Five of the carrier planes crashed and four more are flying with other engines; 21, never to fly, may be used only for Navy ground training. Estimated loss: $200 million...
Next week Westinghouse faces more trouble. A House Military Operations subcommittee opens public hearings into the costly fiasco of the Navy's Demon fighters, which were powered by Westinghouse engines. Five of these swept-wing fighters made by St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft Corp., have crashed; 21 others are lined up at St. Louis' Municipal Airport and will never fly; they will be used instead for research and mechanics' training. The remaining 29 that were made will require new jet engines, to be supplied by General Motors' Allison division, before they can be put into service...
...went Juan Perón's "pacificator" program, the relaxation and concessions spill ing out almost daily, but always in a way that suggested that there was still steel inside the velvet glove. Whatever the true explanation, it appeared that the June 16 revolt, though a military fiasco, may have been something of a revolution after...
...provision, as drawn by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon and a group of TVA advocates, was a Democratic fiasco. President Eisenhower had asked for $6,500,000 to tie in TVA's transmission lines with a Dixon-Yates line at the middle of the Mississippi River, so that the privately owned company could furnish the Tennessee Valley and the Atomic Energy Commission with needed reserves of electrical energy. Cannon & Co. sluiced off the $6,500,000 from Dixon-Yates and authorized it as a down payment on the Fulton TVA plant...