Word: franticness
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...hold the number that enroll. When Archibald MacLeish first came to Harvard, he was assigned a moderately spacious Sever room suitable for the limited numbers who could be expected to show up for an untried lecturer. By the time rescue teams cut their way through the horde of frantic culture-seekers innundating Sever, the adaptable Registrar rescheduled the course, but for a while MacLeish lectured al fresco on the steps of Memorial Chapel...
Satisfaction. Last week, in an effort to clear the air and take the heat off its frantic Intelligence Section, the Air Force answered some questions. Major General Roger M. Ramey, Director of Operations, and Major General John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence, did their best to explain away the excitement. All the reports together, said General Ramey, do not establish any pattern that can be construed as menacing. After six years of study, he is "reasonably well" convinced that there is no such thing as a "flying saucer...
...five frantic hours they considered and rejected proposals. Qavam might be assassinated-but he was a hard man to get a shot at. They might stir up tribal revolts-but that would take too long. Finally, they agreed on a desperate, dangerous move: invite the Red toughs of the outlawed (Communist) Tudeh Party -whom they knew by bitter experience to be militant and well led-to fight in the street alongside them, against the army and the police. Makki summed up the instructions: "Launch a series of violent demonstrations no matter what their outcome-even revolution." The first was scheduled...
Jumping Jacks (Hal Wallis; Paramount) continues the service misadventures of Comics Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Having already created havoc in the Army (At War with the Army) and the Navy (Sailor Beware), they now inflict their frantic talents on the airborne infantry...
Prices were shockingly high, although France had a group of "Vacation Villages" around the country in which a 10-ft.-square cabin and three meals a day cost only $1.50 to $1.80. For Lone-Star Staters, Southern France made frantic preparations for La Semaine du Texas, an eight-day week, when imported Neiman-Marcus models in ten-gallon hats will roam the ranges of the Riviera...