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...architect of the U.S. Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America, a Grot-on-and-Harvard product who headed the State Department's Latin American Affairs Division at 29, as Under Secretary of State became the confidant of Family Friend Franklin Roosevelt and served as personal presidential emissary on fruitless prewar missions to Hitler and Mussolini, only to be forced into resignation-and virtual retirement-in 1943, when Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a "him or me" ultimatum to F.D.R.; in Bernardsville, N.J. Condemned by critics as the embodiment of traditional striped-pants diplomacy, Welles was widely admired...
...that love on opening day, when they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Since then Mauch's team, a combination of players too young to be good and too old for ambition, has won only 34 games, a meager victory assortment widely diffused by 88 defeats. In a fruitless effort to break the losing habit, Manager Mauch has shifted his players into unfamiliar positions, paraded pitchers to the mound, used as many as 17 players a game, and even tried applied psychology. "Do what you want to," he ordered his men one night after a humiliating defeat. "There...
...rocket. Twice the shot was scrubbed when clouds over Cape Canaveral threatened to spoil the photographic record of the flight. Air Force Captain Grissom, 35, took it all in stride. "I'll be ready when you are," he told officials as he stretched his limbs after hours of fruitless waiting in the cramped capsule...
...terrors and physical tortures of trapped men. Almost the entire story takes place in the kanaly, the filthy, fetid sewers that coursed like petrified entrails through German-occupied Warsaw. It is September 1944, the final days of the Uprising, and the ragged remnants of a guerrilla company-waging a fruitless small-arms fight against Nazi tanks-are ordered to retreat underground. There, in sewage, they panic, drown, go mad, get lost, commit suicide and make love...
Having cut the bond of communication with their audience, they can create contact only by arousing curiosity. They use novelty to this end. The result may be either commendable or fruitless innovation. The concert of avant-garde music organized by the Harvard Music Club presented both kinds: electronic music by Richard Maxfield and "compositions" by La Monte Young...