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...into Parliament to represent a lot of stuffy old ladies in Bournemouth. I want to fight for really hard-pressed people." Worse yet, though he was originally a staunch supporter of the Suez invasion, Randolph had recently embarrassed the Macmillan government by a series of newspaper articles attacking the inept military and political management of that operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Randolph's Raid | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Jimmy Velluch led the scoring for the PBH "Friars" as he poked 8 goals by the inept grad goalie, Jamie Hufton. The only dispute in the game came in the second period, after a particularly vicious check from one of the Business School defensemen, when one of the PBH lads produced a switch-knife, and made threatening gestures toward his opponent. Referee Richie Rubenstein quickly calmed the situation and the game was played without further incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Shinny Team Romps Past B-School | 1/21/1959 | See Source »

...misunderstood. Joseph Stalin, in a moment of exceptional obtuseness, dismissed him as "not complicated." Franklin Roosevelt shared the view of him held by British Novelist H. G. Wells?"an utterly sincere megalomaniac." Others, misjudging him in two directions, have called him everything from a dictator-at-heart to an inept political thimblerigger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Man of the Year | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Council President Marc E. Leland has stated that his group has no power to force the Committee to hold elections this Wednesday. Only similar decisions by other House Committees, therefore, would be an effective way of correcting the Council's rather inept handling of the entire voting situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Fiasco | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...bores bees, and bees will do much to keep this inept and sweaty creature away from the true business of production-honey. They will sting, and when they do, Author Crompton insists, the bees know that they give their lives for a good cause. The most successful career woman in the insect world converts her useless ovipositor into a weapon of aggression-and self-destruction. Only the queen bee has it made. Not for nothing did Napoleon have his robes embroidered with the bee symbol: that belated Beelzebub knew who was Lord of the Flies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bee Around Us | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

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