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...than five years-the shortest reign since the obscure Pius VIII, who ruled for 20 ailing months after his election in 1829. But far from being the caretaker that the church expected, John created an atmosphere in which, says Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, "a lot of things came unstuck -old patterns of thought, behavior, feeling. They were not challenged or refuted, but just sort of dropped...
Pressure from Two Quarters. Kong Le's retreat caused consternation in Vien tiane. With his left-right-center coalition fast coming unstuck, Premier Souvanna Phouma was fearful that Kong Le's troops would join forces with a right-wing army just southwest of the Plaine des Jarres and launch a joint counterattack against the Reds that would surely precipitate civil war. Desperately he appealed to Britain and Russia, overseers of the Geneva agreement, for quick intervention to stop the Pathet Lao's flagrant violations of the ceasefire...
...national unity was threatened by the pull of regional economic self-interest, its politics had become fragmented and quarrelsome, its economy was in need of a lift, its painstakingly put-together French-English partnership-the cornerstone of the confederation that will be a century old in 1967-was coming unstuck...
Since they met last, the Congo had come unstuck, and the U.N. had shown its helplessness there. Nikita Khrushchev was not coming this time (he sent Gromyko instead), but the Soviet Union's vituperative attacks on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, and its near refusal to recognize his existence, demoralized everyone. Said one staffer: "Everybody here from Executive Assistant Andrew Cordier on down wants to resign. The Congo has done...
Although Koch worked on the poem eight hours a day for four months (in Italy, "on my wife's Fulbright"), he is really just having fun. And he is always perfectly willing to let a chance rhyme divert his attention. While "snow From the high Himalayas comes unstuck," he writes. "Let's pause a moment, like a dairy truck." The next several stanzas, goofily irrelevant, are about a milkman...