Word: snafus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week's snafus were hardly surprising. Since President Ford announced the mass immunization effort last March, it has been snarled in confusion and controversy, including a hassle over whether the Government would protect the four manufacturers of the vaccine against possible lawsuits resulting from its use. (It will.) As a result, production is far behind schedule. By November, when the flu season normally begins, the companies will have produced only about one-quarter of the 215 million doses originally expected. Availability aside, the vaccine's effectiveness remains questionable. Experts' estimates of the degree of protection...
...fourth-to eighth-grade students were being bused, and some 5,000 secondary-school pupils had volunteered to be transferred to four "magnet" schools. The city's first desegregation plan, designed by a volunteer group of whites, blacks and Mexican Americans, resulted in no disruptions-the only snafus were some lost and late buses. Said Dallas School Superintendent Nolan Estes, who drove one of the buses himself: "We think we have a good plan, and we're doing everything we can to make it work...
Even the trip, at the outset, seemed plagued by snafus. A Kissinger statement on a stopover in London hinting at "indirect military aid" to the Rhodesian rebels was misinterpreted, and the White House promptly shot it down, suggesting-falsely as it turned out -that there might be policy differences on Africa between Kissinger and President Ford. Next the State Department sent out photographic slides of five African leaders to television stations; three were labeled with wrong names...
...authors soon discover that the tour is a grinding, unglamorous ordeal. What should be a time to savor the satisfaction of having completed months, even years of solitary work turns into an odyssey of bad food, jet lag, little sleep and the sort of snafus that used to be found in Olsen and Johnson movies. Peter Maas (King of the Gypsies) ran into a familiar problem when pushing an earlier book, Valachi Papers: he was on time for an autograph session but his books were not. A complaint to his publishers brought promises of action. Indeed, a stack...
Since their initial clash both teams have run into major snafus. B.C., which loomed as the cream of New England's basketball crop before the season began, has tottered to a 5-7 mark. The Crimson had double trouble over the weekend, bowing to Ivy frontrunner Princeton 62-57, after hanging tough until the waning moments, and then dropping a 63-53 decision to Penn the next...