Word: waterlooed
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...post of music director for the Chicago Symphony is sometimes known as a conductor's Waterloo. No wonder. Artur Rodzinski lasted exactly one year before the dissatisfied trustees ousted him. Rafael Kubelik was hounded out of the job by Claudia Cassidy, the relentlessly hostile-toward Kubelik, at any rate- but now retired critic of the Chicago Tribune. Jean Martinon quit last year after a series of disputes that culminated in a clash with his musicians over discipline. The only recent conductor to succeed in the job was the late Fritz Reiner, a Hungarian with Germanic musical tastes, who brilliantly...
...legendary Rothschilds have quite a knack for multiplying their money by backing the right people in the right places. Rothschild gold bought supplies for the Duke of Wellington before Waterloo, financed Disraeli's purchase of the Suez Canal and bankrolled 19th century railroaders as well as modern industrial pioneers in Newfoundland. Soon the Rothschilds will be striking out in still another direction: the lands around the broad Pacific basin, especially Japan...
...open to attack-and a providential rainfall bogged down his chariots-Deborah's troops charged down the mountainside to annihilate the Canaanite army. The tactic of luring an enemy into a trap that favors the defense, Gale says, is fundamentally the same maneuver employed by Wellington at Waterloo and by Viscount Montgomery in his victory over Rommel at Alam Haifa...
...downfall raises me to infinite heights."-Napoleon after Waterloo...
...outcome, as the victorious Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, was "the nearest run thing you ever saw." One week before Election Day, nobody would have believed the race could turn out that way. In August, the party that nominated Humphrey at Chicago was a shambles. The old Democratic coalition was disintegrating, with untold numbers of blue-collar workers responding to Wallace's blandishments, Negroes threatening to sit out the election, liberals disaffected over the Viet Nam war, the South lost. The war chest was almost empty, and the party's machinery, neglected by Lyndon Johnson, creaked...