Word: ineptness
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Responding to these familiar tones, tribal chieftains and courtiers came flocking to Hodeida to make their obeisance. The inept Prince Badr was let off with nothing worse than a rebuke for his lack of toughness, but the Yemeni radio stopped broadcasting army officers' speeches, and not a word more was heard about any reforms. And last week came reports that, true to his promise, the Imam had ordered the decapitation of one of his subjects and the amputation of the left hand and right foot of 15 others, in punishment for the murder of a high official last June...
...Capitol Hill itself, there was another new team. Illinois Republican Everett Dirksen succeeded California's obstructionist William Fife Knowland as Senate Republican leader, and Knowland had been as inept a leader as was ever inflicted upon a President. In the House, Indiana's Charles Halleck, with White House blessings, ousted Massachusetts' aging Joe Martin as Minority leader, soon proved himself a whiplashing, gut-fighting leader who would go down the line for the Administration...
...what really shattered Mills's prestige was the inept performance of the Ways & Means Committee so far this year. Mills failed to get committee backing for his own proposals for revising the tax laws on cooperatives, depletion allowances and overseas investments, had to put them aside until next year. It took the committee months of floundering to settle on a measure to finance highway construction. Faced with President Eisenhower's request for removal of interest-rate ceilings on long-term Treasury bonds. Mills proposed three different solutions. failed to muster adequate support for any of them, wearily gave...
...Inept Performance. One reason for Mills's decline is that Arkansas (along with Mississippi, Vermont and West Virginia) has declined in population during the 1950s, while the total U.S. population was soaring. In the redistricting that will follow the 1960 census, Arkansas stands to lose two of its six House seats. With the state legislature under his control. Governor Orval Faubus will have the power to redistrict Wilbur Mills right out of the House, so Mills has had to avoid offending Faubus. Bowing to Faubus, Mills has been conspicuously protective toward Arkansas Congressman Dale Alford, outspoken segregationist...
...improvements, but in 20 years of Francisco Franco, the Spanish economy has seen precious little improvement. Partly to blame were the aftermath of Spain's ruinous Civil War, the international war that followed, and the long years of political isolation. But the rest lay in Franco's inept administering, in Spain's archaic economic system, and perhaps in those national qualities described by a 19th century Spanish statesman: "I do not know where we are going, but I do know this-that wherever it is, we shall lose...