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Rolvaag didn't really win the 1962 election; Anderson lost it with a campaign that even he privately admitted was remarkably inept. Anderson had won in 1960 largely because of the votes he picked up in the traditionally Democratic iron ranges in the state's far north. In 1962 Anderson foolishly attacked a northern Minnesota DFL congressman -- John Blatnik -- so sacrosanct that he is running this year without opposition...
...waited two hours for staff members (of whom there appeared to be only three) to talk to them. Those remaining at six o'clock were informed that the interviewers were going home. They were invited to try their luck again the next day. The girl handling the interviews was inept and apparently without experience. She asked only routine questions, already answered on the application forms which she obviously had not read before-hand...
There's an old rule in politics: don't make promises you can't keep. Last week, President Bunting reneged on a promise to 250 Cliffies and proved once again that she's a particularly inept politician...
...Antony and Cleopatra was a disappointment, the new house, this exceptional season, and your delightfully written cover story are not. You have successfully retired the cliche that Bing is a stuffy, humorless, inept Austrian tyrant and given us a wi. ty. dedicated, and exceptionally talented human being...
...Evil, Inept. Many major institutions, such as Harvard and Chicago, assume that the prestige of their faculties is sufficient to get a normal share of federal research grants. Academic lobbyists, sniffs Charles Daly, Chicago's vice president for public affairs, "are like all lobbyists, appallingly bad-not bad in the sense of being evil, just inept." Inept or not, many a smaller college has apparently decided that the Washington consultant may be the only way to attract the Government's attention when the money is being passed around...