Word: franticness
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...Washington, Titov and his buxom wife Tamara joined John and Mrs. Glenn for a frantic tour of the capital. They were chivied from conference to conference by mobs of reporters, photographers and keening teenagers. ("My God," cried one photographer, "it was Sinatra all over again!") The Glenns showed the visitors the standard sights (Smithsonian, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, etc.) and took the Titovs to the White House for a brief, formal call on President Kennedy...
...Ogle, getting ready for Dominic meant a frantic air chase between Hawaii, Omaha, Nevada, Washington and Denver -an average of some 1,000 miles...
...shred of fact: during the war Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued orders that the ape population of Gibraltar be preserved, in deference to the legend that when the last ape leaves the rock, the British will, too. The monkey tricks that roll out of Gallico's typewriter are frantic but predictable. The crisis, brought on by fifth columnists who try to wipe out the ape population, is passed when Scruffy is induced to marry cross-eyed Amelia, after a long-distance betrothal complete with a touched-up portrait, a la Anne of Cleves. It was funnier the first time...
...hours.'' But with some $20 million already sunk in the seemingly bottomless Cleopatra, 20th Century-Fox had scant choice but to try to make a virtue of the peccadilloes of its irreplaceable star. Where Fox President Spyros Skouras last month jetted to Rome in a frantic effort to suppress Liz's infatuation for Burton, the studio now turned resignedly wry. Joining in the tastelessness, Cleopatra Director Joseph Mankiewicz, himself an often-reported Liz diversion, deadpanned: "The real truth is that I am in love with Burton and Miss Taylor is the cover-up for us." Fox flacks...
...contained only one good account of its dangers, published in 1960 by two Baltimore researchers. The Binghamton doctors were faced with the first case of mass salt poisoning in U.S. hospital annals. They summoned one of the Baltimore team, Dr. Laurence Finberg of Johns Hopkins, and began their own frantic efforts to save the poisoned babies...