Word: franticness
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...this 25th anniversary, there are still a few staffers here who can recall that frantic Sunday. The first inkling at TIME was a roar from a senior editor as he read the first A.P. wire dispatch. After the initial shock, everything went in orderly progression. Staffers who were on vacation streamed back to the office. With only 24 hours until deadline time (the magazine went to press on Monday nights then), the editors scrapped the planned cover on Walt Disney's elephant Dumbo in favor of the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Husband Kimmel. A new section...
...fourth quarter, Safetyman Tom Schoen intercepted two of Raye's passes, and the Irish repeatedly fought their way into Michigan State territory-only to muff scoring opportunities. Azzaro missed a 41-yd. field goal that would have won the game, and O'Brien's frantic, wobbly passes were unlikely to make anybody forget Terry Hanratty. Finally, with Notre Dame in possession on its own 30 and only 55 seconds left, Irish Coach Ara Parseghian decided to settle for a tie. While the crowd booed lustily, Notre Dame ran five plunges, all called from the bench. "I didn...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). A documentary of the frantic weeks of preparation for the opening of Manhattan's new Metropolitan Opera House and the world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra. With Met General Manager Rudolf Bing, Leontyne Price, Thomas Schippers and Franco Zeffirelli...
...have liked to undertake that fight, but as associate director of the Kennedy Institute he was not about to do it and thereby jeopardize the Institute's program. Yet, there was more to his belligerence than simple disagreement. There were the efforts of the last three weeks, and the frantic attempts to avoid embarrassment for McNamara. Three weeks of futility. Frank knew that this time he had been beaten...
...that Mao and Lin have somewhat consolidated their victory in the Politburo, many have tried to speculate when the frantic activity in China will end. Some observers see in the Cultural Revolution the germs of another abortive push toward impossible economic quotas such as the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950's. But Party directives have cautioned the Red Guards to strive for "cultural" improvements and leave the economy alone...