Word: franticness
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...Johnson, but it made a certain amount of sense to his red-eyed, rumpled colleagues, worn down by 14-hour working days as they rushed toward adjournment before the July11 Democratic Convention. The House side was equally hectic. After five leisurely months, the 86th Congress last week launched a frantic drive to pass "must" legislation. Items: ¶The House passed (258-124) a $3.58 billion foreign-aid bill, $590.5 million below Administration requests, but a surprising $200 million above the $3.38 billion package backed by House Speaker Sam Rayburn-thanks to a rare combination of conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats...
...next nine holes were decisive. Hitting with full power, Palmer reached the green on the 563-yd. eleventh hole in two shots, holed out in two putts for another birdie to go four under par for the tournament. With Souchak fading fast, the Open turned into a frantic, four-way fight between Palmer, Jack Fleck, 38, the 1958 winner, Jack Nicklaus. 20, the husky U.S. Amateur champion, and a fagged-out Ben Hogan, 47, gallantly trying for his fifth victory in the event...
...social honeybees buzz from address to address in search of sweet status, Suburbia is at the same time the home of the talented and distinguished Americans who write the nation's books, paint its paintings, run its corporations and set the patterns.* If its legions sometimes march into frantic activity with rigorous unison, they march for such causes as better schools, churches and charities, which are the building blocks of a nation's character. If Suburbia's ardent pursuit of life at backyard barbecues, block parties and committee meetings offends pious city-bred sociologists, its self-conscious...
...Castro waxed more frantic against "Yankee imperialists," he grew ever friendlier to Russia. In Moscow, his henchman Antonio Nunez Jimenez presented a Cuban flag to the top Russian of them all, and soon Nikita Khrushchev will visit Cuba. If Castro was not yet enlisted in the Communist camp, he had become too comradely for comfort, in a place just 100 miles off Florida...
...also blames Broadway's frightened, money-grubbing drive to achieve hits at any cost. "Suddenly, the theater, born, they say, of ritual, becomes a hideous bore. All that enormous effort, all those lights, all that beauty, all the pulls to make us believe in the artifice -all suddenly frantic and mean. I went to the theater to discover another world, the true world of imagination, but I saw only my own bad world, coarsely admired . . . How rarely on the stage do you see people who think thoughts, who make political decisions, who are not asking merely to be loved...