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...Albatross. The case against Dean Acheson was based primarily on his Asiatic policy. Assistant Secretary Dean Rusk uses a phrase-"the error of the fatal flaw." Says Rusk: "There are probably some major problems of international relations that are beyond human capacity to think through. There are hundreds of major premises pulling in all directions ... The policymaker is constantly haunted by the error of the fatal flaw...
Here is a sport without flaw, approaching at last--the ideal of student participation. It combines the virtues of team spirit, rivalry, and upperclass exercise. There is no better training in sportsmanship than an Ivy League goal-post riot, run on strict gentleman's rules. Above all, it has spectator appeal with no taint of professionalism...
...B.S.O. can not promise that pieces will be placed in the same order on Thursday as on Friday, or that all the works to be performed Friday will even be rehearsed the evening before. Moreover, there is always the possibility that the Orchestra will be stopped to correct a flaw. The concert rehearsals will, however, last the regulation rehearsal time limit from...
...somehow, in all of "Ivan's" ardor and devotion, there seemed to be a fatal flaw. He liked to run the Ministry of Education in his own way and he stubbornly resisted the demands of party politicos with axes of their own to grind. From the standpoint of the Casa Rosada, Oscar Ivanissevich was beginning to seem a little too independent...
Stanley Woodward, former Tribune sports editor who brought Smith to New York from the Philadelphia Record, finds the 44-year-old columnist's sole flaw stems form unalterable belief that no wrong can be done by Notre Dame, his alma mater. There is certainly little to criticize about Smiths' writing; he has his favorite expressions, but he is always fresh...