Word: franticness
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...KNACK. As the gamin up for grabs in a town house occupied by three offbeat British bachelors, Rita Tushingham shines through the sight gags in Director Richard Lester's (A Hard Day's Night) frantic, frequently hilarious version of the New York-London stage...
Apparently his spark plugs were fouled. Hill's B.R.M. pit crew heard the rough engine too. Graham caught their frantic signals, grimly poured it on. Drifting through the corners as tightly as possible, slipstreaming other cars to gain momentum before he passed, Hill began to eat into Clark's lead at the rate of 3 sec. or more a lap. Clark knew Hill was coming; he kept glancing over his shoulder, ducking back to fiddle with his controls, trying to coax some response out of his sputtering engine...
...filling it, all of whom have to eat at the Union along with the other 4350 people in the Summer School, who, if they all ate there, would have to be served at the rate of 8 1/2 people a second in order to get their food in the frantic hour and a half allotted by the aforesaid Summer School administration, which can still alleviate the whole mess by opening up the Quincy House dining room, just as it did last year...
...test driving at Silverstone, and back to Reims again-this time to practice for a July 4 Formula II race. Ahead on the schedule: a Ford junket to Switzerland, a race in Britain, a trip to Rouen, a movie filming in Scotland, and the Dutch Grand Prix. This frantic life has its little compensations. Fortune, for one: his income from racing this year will top $230,000, and Edington Mains is busily in the black too, producing barley for Scotch-whisky distillers, sheep for wool, and cattle for slaughter. He has his Scottish sheep dog, Sweep, who pines...
...Equals $12 Million. In 1962 Tino set out on a fantastic scheme to corner the entire market in soybeans. He plunged into commodities futures, a frantic market of paper and promises, where fortunes are made or lost on fluctuations of a fraction of a penny. Betting that the price of soybeans would rise, Tino bought huge contracts for future deliveries of soybeans from other speculators who in turn were betting that the market would fall. He was helped by the fact that commodities markets work on bargain-basement margins of 5% to 15%-that is, big traders need...