Word: bustingly
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...Hell's Angels, a branch of the Los Angeles organization. When the state attorney general cracked down on their rampaging rallies, Miles protested. "The stories spread about our wild sex and marijuana parties," he said, "are exaggerated. If we even tried, the cops might swoop down and bust it up. They harass us, they spread lies and call us bad seeds." Then last May he hauled down the Sacramento Angels' emblem-a death's-head wearing a helmet and wings-and departed for Oakland to seek "a better life," free from "police harassment...
...apropos that the bust of General Westmoreland should be photographed in the original clay. It seems truly representative of all G.I.s who are winning this one on their bellies in the mud of the Viet jungles...
...courts for a $322,000-a-day retroactive fine against the T.W.U., whose total treasury is so modest (less than $1,000,000) that it does not even pay its union members strike benefits. That only made the T.W.U. madder and brought charges that the Authority was trying to bust the union. "As a result," said Douglas MacMahon, "negotiations are now at a standstill." No one was quite sure just how long New Yorkers would have to walk, but everyone suddenly recalled that Mike Quill had predicted a long strike, perhaps as long as 28 or 29 days...
...mandatory Frank Sinatra Joke, an orgy of network self-promotion (walk-ons by NBC stars), a tiresome, ten-minute flamenco ballet. As for the much-ballyhooed TV debut of Sammy's big drawing card, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Burton-well, television has rarely seen such a bust...
...boom began all right-but it went bust after Singapore's expulsion from the federation last August as a result of racial and political conflicts. Instead of a boom, Singapore now faces such critical problems as widespread unemployment (13.5%), dwindling trade (down 20%), and tense relations with Malaya, on which Singapore depends for, among other things, its water supply and its raw materials. Singapore's leaders are trying to keep their nation's economy afloat by a massive switch from trade to manufacturing, are urging industrial countries to set up plants in Singapore and buy its products...