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Originally, the U.N.'s Congo officials had condoned the takeover of power by Colonel Joseph Mobutu, 30, relieved to have someone try to impose order on the squabbling politicians. Now they were undermining the hapless young soldier...
Stomping Success. Behind the rise of the seven dwarfs was the bitter yearning to get revenge on Oklahoma and canny Coach Bud Wilkinson, who annually rolled up the score on the hapless likes of Kansas State and Iowa State to boost his team's claim on a national championship. "If any of us gets Bud down," said one Big Eight coach, "I sure hope he stomps him good...
Slapped & Hapless. No one, least of all cocky Khrushchev, could probably have foreseen the degree of frustration that lay ahead for him when he set sail for Manhattan aboard Baltika. Even as he and his cronies were on the high seas, the expelled Communist "technicians" and diplomats in the Congo were packing their bags and heading home in defeat in one of the indelible and humiliating scenes of the cold war (TIME, Sept. 26). Even as his contingent arrived on Manhattan Island, the U.N., in one overwhelming 70-0 vote, slapped down the Russian-led attempt to discredit Dag Hammarskjold...
Newspapers rallied to the commissioner, forgave him his transgression for being overtired, and left hapless Bob Wagner with his ultimatum running out. At the last minute, former Senator Herbert H. Lehman, a fellow Democrat and patriarch of New York Jewry, offered a solution. He praised Commissioner Kennedy as a man of integrity, courage and high character. The whole controversy, he said, had been exaggerated out of all reason. Well, said "I'm-the-Mayor" Wagner after a conference, it's up to the Board of Rabbis: "They asked for an apology." And everybody in the city understood that...
...many a helpless housewife and hapless weekend handyman, life's most nagging little crisis is an encounter with a leaky roof, a broken window or a clogged drain. Professional repairmen are hard to find, harder to pay. The do-it-yourself books often produce only frayed tempers, flayed thumbs. Last week, from Los Angeles to Long Island, the unhandy were entrusting chores to a new and spreading U.S. service: the home-repair club...