Word: ineptness
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...Monroe Doctrine is still alive. "That's why we have cut off our trade," he said, "and that's why we work in the OAS and in other ways to isolate the Communist menace in Cuba." Gaining Their Chains. Cuba was obviously feeling the economic squeeze of inept Communist management. Castro last week froze wages, invoked stringent penalties for absenteeism. The $293 million in the treasury when Castro took over has now shrunk to $5,000,000 in foreign exchange. Looking for help, Economic Czar Ernesto (Che) Guevara was dispatched in a hurry to huddle with Soviet Premier...
...seated, Justice Cooper stood and defended his record as chief justice of New York City's court of special sessions from 1951 to 1960, when he resigned because of the mental strain of the job. Cooper described a judicial nightmare of overcrowded dockets, inadequate facilities and inept assistants that forced him to adopt a rigorous code of courtroom conduct...
...comedy interpolations in the South Shore production often prove humorous and tasteful, such as jailhouse monologue of Frosch, played broadly but brilliantly by Bernie West. Adele's embarrassingly inept behavior at the ball justifies itself by her status. But the folksy, hail-fellow-well met lyrics of Howard Dietz have no business being used in any production of Die Fledermaus which attempts to capture the flavor of the original or to offer any amount of the necessary stylization...
...reels roll on, Dad, the inept irascible bumbler, turns into a smarmy Mr. Fixit, and even gets his tooth-traumatized daughter a date with Fabian, the tonsil titan of the teenette set. who breathes all over a song called Cream Puff. In one genuinely funny sequence, John McGiver. as a laconic bird watcher, cues Stewart, during a predawn to post-dusk ordeal, on how to spot man's feathered friends. Since there are no recognizable humans in it, Mr. Hobbs is really strictly for the bird watchers...
...Cambridge believe that all Harvard men should be "intellectual." They point out that the "playboy" is a dying cause that went out with the Gold Coast and postwar Radcliffe, and crusade to exterminate the last real menace to the Harvard community, the "jock." He's a crude, embarrassingly inept social thing in an HAA sweat shirt--a C student at best, these people maintain, as they request more scholarly replacements to beef up the total intellectual output of the College. The most common disagreement is with the admissions policies of the University, which, they say, "have been guilty of admitting...