Word: frantically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adjustment desk on the day after Christmas. Last week Macy's not only an nounced a 7% sales increase (to $623.5 million) and record profits for the fiscal year, but increased its dividend and proposed a two-for-one stock split (its first). Then, after weeks of frantic preparation, Macy's opened its newest store, an $11 million building in New Haven. It was the second such opening this year, and it brings the total of Macy's stores to 48, which stretch from its famous home on Manhattan's Herald Square to branches...
...Frantic Frenchmen. The Met's greatest stroke was its 1961 auction purchase of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; armed with backing from Redmond's board, Rorimer outbid the well-heeled Cleveland Museum with the highest known price ever paid for an art object, $2,300,000. But that deal involved only money, of which the Met has access to loads ($104 million-plus in assets, exclusive of its art riches); other triumphs are more intriguing. Four years ago, the Met stirred outrage in the Gaullist Parliament by quietly acquiring, for possibly...
...clear to all but bitter-enders and Cincinnatians that Gene Mauch's amazing Philadelphia Phillies-the laughingstock of the league just three years ago-are too far ahead to be caught. But there are other mysteries to marvel at: the careless collapse of the San Francisco Giants, the frantic frustration of the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers, the night the Japanese finally broke into the U.S. big leagues. If that is not enough, there is always the curious sale of the Yankees to CBS and the wondrous hitting of Minnesota's Tony Oliva, a champion in his rookie...
...there seemed to be little likelihood that he would resume the frantic pace of his first 17 days in office. He has shed the foreign minister's portfolio, naming ex-Railways Minister Swaran Singh to handle India's relations abroad. It was a task that Jawaharlal Nehru himself used to carry, but there was no need for Shastri to kill himself merely in order to emulate his indefatigable predecessor. "It is not necessary," wrote a columnist in Bombay's influential Economic Weekly, "for Shastri to be Foreign Minister, Minister for Atomic Energy and Chairman of the Planning...
...passing motorists. They actually stand patiently--on the curb--while a red light flashes its warning. When it turns green in their direction, and all vehicles grind obediently to a halt, Washingtonians finally plod across the street. No muss, no fuss, no howling drivers, no bruised pedestrians, no frantic policemen...