Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Recalling his costly 1958 debut, Pearson makes no effort to shift the blame. "It was a very stupid move, and it made me look inept and incompetent just as I became leader...
...Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd (now Lord Boyd) to the conference table. Throughout the grueling, three-week session in London, the Tunku refused to budge from his ultimatum that independence must come no later than Aug. 31, 1957. "When the Siamese have no intention of yielding, they just appear stupid," he told subordinates. "I'm half Siamese, you know." At last, Lennox-Boyd got the point and caved in. On the Tunku's target date, independent Malaya came into being...
...Ezra Pound, 77, who spent World War II broadcasting for Mussolini, told the weekly Epoca: "I was always wrong. I lived all my life thinking I knew something; then a day came when I realized I didn't know a thing. My intentions were good, but I was stupid. Now I simply contemplate...
...going to be tremendous harm done to many individuals as a result of this hearing." He left no doubt about who he thought would be hurt the most. The hearings, as reported in the press, he said, imply "that I am either subject to political influence, self-interest, or stupid...
...Stupid Dupes. Though he did not appear at the hearings, White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger sought in his own way to disperse the fog bank by turning the press's own charges against itself. There is, Salinger told a Women's National Press Club luncheon, "only one legitimate place where news can be 'managed' -the desks of newspaper city editors and managing editors and of radio and television news directors...