Word: erraticism
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Nkrumah assiduously promoted his view that erratic Patrice Lumumba should be restored to power as Premier of the chaotic Congo, and warned newsmen that anything which damaged the prestige or authority of Lumumba's nonexistent government would "undermine the whole basis of democracy in Africa."
Aglow with success, the erratic Premier saved his shocker until the end. "The United Nations has plotted with Kasavubu to overthrow my government and failed," he shouted. "We must demand the immediate withdrawal of all United Nations troops from the Congo."
¶In the private U.S. preserve of the shot put, the first man that Army Lieut. Bill Nieder. 26. had to beat was himself. Though he held the world record (65 ft. 10 in.). Nieder had often been erratic under pressure, had flopped badly at the Olympic trials and made...
On to Kasai. Maladroit as he was, bearded Patrice Lumumba last week staged an erratic but undeniable demagogic comeback. As the week opened, secessionists in Katanga and Kasai provinces still held large portions of his nation. In the Congolese Parliament, Senator Sebastian Fele, newly sprung from a Lumumba jail, won...
For its first six passes around the earth, Discoverer XIV looked sick. At the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division in Inglewood, Calif., the project officer, Colonel C. Lee Battle, listened gloomily as tracking reports filtered in. The news was bad: on only its second pass, Discoverer XIV started to pitch...