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While local orators paid flowery tribute to Hawaii's "daring experiment," the university set up the center as a confusing blend of graduate and undergraduate studies. In fact, it was just another department with an amorphous mission. Alarmed at a possible flop, prominent Hawaiians campaigned for a prestigious director: U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche, who judged that the center had a flaccid future, backed away...
...fish for bream. At night they swarmed into Gulfport's nightspots to gamble at the tables and ogle the show girls. There was little work for the unit's recreation officer. Said he: "Last year I tried to organize a softball league. It was a real flop. They were all at the beach, or fishing-or someplace. They didn't need any more recreation...
...desk. They recognize that nothing much can be done in the U.N. unless it has the backing of the U.S., and they have shown willingness to accept moderate measures that the U.S. can support. Furthermore, Russian influence has dropped sharply. In African eyes, Khrushchev had proved a total flop in the Congo. Even some of his best African friends, among them Egypt's Nasser (see below) and Ghana's Nkrumah, have learned that dealing with Khrushchev is frustrating. In fact, Nkrumah has reportedly concluded that Khrushchev's "troika" is a dangerous obstacle to Africa's aspirations...
...Nasser had been jailing home-grown Communists-even while toasting Soviet dignitaries and signing new trade pacts with the Communist bloc. He has effectively purged them from the government, the press, the schools. Khrushchev's flirtation with Arab nationalism seemed to have come to nothing but a costly flop, and he was under pressure from the Red Chinese, who condemned aid to Nasser as an "opportunistic error...
...influenza epidemic and George S. Kaufman's first play opened in Manhattan in 1918, and the play was vastly less contagious. With dour glee, the 28-year-old writer went around advising people to avoid crowds-see Someone in the House." The flop was satisfying proof to Kaufman of "the gross inadequacies of the human race"-from which, as his collaborator Moss Hart observed, the playwright suffered daily. But he mined his suffering profitably; over the years he produced more memorable wisecracks and more hit comedies than anyone else in the U.S. theater. Last week. Kaufman died...