Word: franticness
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When the old Havana-Guanabacoa road was converted into a superhighway, a venerable travelers' shrine known as the Virgin of the Road was destroyed. The Virgin's friends and neighbors, fearful of Cuba's frantic traffic, protested, and the government commissioned Sculptress Rita Longa (seated, right) to make a new Virgin. Still to be consecrated, the new Virgin has been a quick success. Even at night Cubans toss money in the pool, stuff currency in her hand. The money, collected regularly ($112.28 last week), is given to an orphanage...
Coast to Coast. But how sure was "sure?" Was there, at this last frantic moment, a chance to dump Harry Truman? After all, of the six other U.S. Presidents who reached the White House through the death of their predecessors, four had been unceremoniously dropped by their own party as soon as their terms were up. Ten days before the convention would open, a hastily formed coalition to stop Harry Truman came into being...
Under the Roof. Frantic cries from inside a nearby flattened shop came from two women and two children pinned beneath the wooden roof. Distracted passersby paused for a moment to help pry up the fallen beams. By this time the fire was spreading in all directions, coming toward us fast. The two rescued women, their babies in their arms, crawled out, red-faced and shaking, shouting "Arigato, arigato!" (Thank you, thank you!). Almost immediately the fire jumped across the street and caught the building from which they had just been rescued...
...last week in place of the billions of marks now clogging Western Germany's inflated, paralyzed economy. The rate of exchange would be announced later, but the Germans would probably get only one new mark for ten old ones. Anticipation of the currency reform started Germans on a frantic buying spree to get rid of their old money...
Kids were driving their parents crazy with it. Waitresses in jukebox joints were going frantic. The whole U.S. seemed to be gurgling itself silly with the laughing gassiness of a goofy song called Woody Woodpecker. Out only four weeks, Woody was already tops on Variety's list of the nation's most played jukebox tunes...