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Warren's appointment to the Supreme Court is Eisenhower's biggest blunder and the most inept since Caligula named his horse a consul...
...Central Committee, which lasted far beyond normal duration. The men soon to be fingered as the organizers of the Leningrad Case (see box)-a charge which, according to all Soviet precedent, would cost them their lives-undoubtedly put up a vigorous fight: Molotov, attacking Khrushchev's inept foreign policy; Malenkov, agilely trying to save his skin; and the sour-voiced Kaganovich, full of murderous hate for the man who had once been his protege. But they lost because the mass of the party was against them and had ordained that they should be formally shorn of their great offices...
...Communism is the "natural result of backwardness.'' It is, above all, the result of deliberate policy and must be countered by deliberate policy. What is needed in the West to fight Communism's "dialectic unity of offense and defense" is total struggle. Chiang's occasionally inept translators render it as "total war," but from the context it is obvious that this is not what he means. On the contrary: the West's position is rendered too cumbersome, too defensive by its preoccupation with hydrogen war. Russia wants the West to think "that if there...
...ambitious civil servant named Nobusuke Kishi became an economic administrator in Manchukuo, then Minister of Commerce and Industry in the Tojo Cabinet, and finally wound up in jail for three years after World War II as a war-criminal suspect. He emerged convinced that though the means had been inept, the aim remained the only solution of Japan's pressing economic problems...
...safe and smug academic bureaucrat. His character has not been tempered on the playing fields of Eton, and he is as proud of his beer tastes as he is irritated by his beer income. To hold on to his teaching post he becomes involved in a series of tawdry, inept and sometimes hilarious maneuvers. This display of self-serving clownmanship has catapulted his saga through 18 printings and left countless Britons alternately fuming and guffawing...