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Foremost of these is the growing apprehension about the course of U.S. foreign policy. The apprehension was heightened by last week's furor over the 18 tanks for Saudi Arabia (TIME, Feb. 27) principally because this inept episode in diplomacy was read as being symptomatic of high-level inattention to detail. Some of the worry was stirred by eager, trend-pursuing newsmen (see JUDGMENTS & PROPHECIES) and politicians in pursuit of campaign issues. Some of it was well-founded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The President's Task | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...Greedy labor unions and inept management are driving other newspapers out of business," he says. "I hope they don't, really, because I like to see variety. But one thing I know. The Mirror will flourish. And I shan't rest until the Pictorial overtakes the News of the World [the Sunday paper which, at 7,971,000 has the highest circulation on earth]. We won't be buying anything else for a while, though. We'll have to digest this lot before we look for our next meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: First Lord of the Press | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

Maestro. In Manchester, England, after an inept pupil backed the learner's car onto a sidewalk, Auto Instructor Handel Andrew indignantly took the wheel, promptly smacked into a lamppost, was fined ?3 ($8.40) for careless driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 24, 1955 | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

This Sock Sigh One prof, it said, was "universally condemned as in previous years" for his "completely irrelevant or utterly useless lectures" which were "unprepared, disorganized and rambling"...besides he told "unfunny dirty stories"... Typical appellations were "inept, insulting and an intellectual sloth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WE BECOME HAHARVUD MAN, FIND SPEECH STILL FREE | 10/4/1955 | See Source »

Such recital of figures, however impressive, overlooks the speed and power of the Harvard line-especially supervising for an opening game--and a very inept UMass defense. It is a fast Harvard line, and in Umass coach Charlie O'Rourke's opinion, far better than last year's top-flight forward wall. It consistently rushed UMass passers and held the losers to a bare 110 yards on the ground. Harvard totaled 510. It is a thinking line, to judge from the care such yeoman performers as Bill Meigs and Orville Tice took not to commit themselves too early...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Varsity Opens Season by Overpowering Massachusetts Eleven by 60-to-6 Score | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

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