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Over the course of barely two hours on Sunday, Ferrari’s calamitous Formula One season went from bad to worse to absolute rock bottom.

Authorities have meanwhile launched a crackdown on dissent at home that critics say carries echoes of the Soviet era -- even though it is a far cry from the calamitous bloodshed perpetrated by Stalin.

The Peronists, for their part, offer little except a return to the calamitous past.

“You come here for a unique window into this pivotal calamitous moment that wiped out the dinosaurs and made the modern world as we know it,” Mr. Lacovara says.

The immediate cause of his calamitous fin de régime is now clear.