Word: franticness
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...Philippines' presidential elections were expected to be the closest in the islands' history. Certainly the campaign had been the longest, costliest and most frantic. For an entire year, President Diosdado Macapagal, 55, the Liberal Party's choice for reelection, had swapped bombas (personal attacks) with the Nationalist Party challenger, Senate President Ferdinand Marcos, 48. In addition to bombas, Macapagal and Marcos spent $8,000,000, a princely sum in Filipino politics, to swamp the country with a deluge of political pamphlets, placards, and tear-jerking biographical movies. But last week, as 8,000,000 Filipinos went...
...radio reporter in Plei Me, where several wounded G.I.s were awaiting evacuation, "an air strike will begin and a if helicopter might very well be caught in it. They have loaded two men on. Here comes the air strike. The helicopter is still on the ground." Suddenly, the frantic voice of a U.S. soldier broke into the narrative. "Get him up! Get him out! Get him up!" he screamed. Back came the CBS man: "The helicopter takes off quickly, heading straight north. The air strike is held for a moment. The chopper makes it safely...
...Colored No More." On his way up, Sammy brovight a built-in penchant for bad luck and controversy along with him. First there was the 1954 automobile accident in Las Vegas that cost him his left eye. Then, after a frantic new beginning, there were the years when he became one of the most notorious members of the Sinatra Rat Pack, his eyepatch fixed rakishly, like a pirate's, eager to outdrink, outgamble and outperform any other Clansman. Finally there were the unkindest cuts of all-from the Negro press, resentful of Davis' growing reputation for all-night...
...Conducting symposia like the one ARFEP is now considering, less frantic than the marathon "teach-in" and aimed at producing practiced policy appraissals and proposals...
Fonda makes frantic efforts to ring in a company lawyer, a doctor and a hyperthyroid magazine editor (Sandy Baron) to thwart the ultranatural-childbirth plot. This keeps the stage busy, but what keeps the play moving is undrying freshets of laughter, the limber comic pacing of Director Gene Saks, and the abrasive tension of the generational tug-of-war. The son-in-law's nose is keener than his intelligence. He scents corruption in every institution, but he demands a kind of impossible social purity, something akin to repealing the Industrial Revolution. The father has permitted an urgent sense...