Word: setbacks
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...more by showmanship than necessity. True, two girls did threaten to jump off a Manhattan hotel roof in the Beatles' honor. But the girls were combing their hair while the crowds gathered, and it was taken as a sign of the times that they chose a 22nd-floor setback of the building and not the 50th floor. Clearly, Beatlemania has seen greater heights...
...setback came as a stunning blow to the Reds. Moro's men were quick to boast that the outcome proved the worth of the Centra Sinistra, the ruling center-left coalition created largely for the purpose of isolating the Commu nists. It also reflected the absence of an effective successor to the late Communist Party boss Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's growing affluence, and the increasing moderation of Italian voters...
Baseball: The freshman nine was also clipped by Yale, 6.5, and the setback gave them an 11.2 record. The only other loss of the season was an 11.2 pasting by Northeastern's powerhouse...
When he was assassinated, sympathetic newspapers in other countries pictured Malcolm's death as a major setback in the fight for Negro rights in America. But these reactions, said Carl Rowan, then head of the United States Information Agency, were based on "misinformation." All the praise for Malcolm X, he said, was for "an ex-convict and ex-dope peddler, who became a racial fanatic." And so in the United States, the reaction to Malcolm's performance in the sixties was colored by his record in the forties, and only half of his story was discussed...
Steve Bergman, the Crimson's fifth man, also was ambushed by his Eli adversary. Bergman's fine 78 was only good for a 4 and 3 setback...