Word: gusto
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HEARTY AND HELLISH! (the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem; Columbia). The Irish revolutionaries who now campaign on the nightclub circuit launch with characteristic gusto into the folk favorites of the pubs. In the quartet's repertory are love songs, drinking songs (Whiskey, You're the Devil) and a few broad digs at Mother England...
...Staff Curtis LeMay. LeMay always says what he thinks-and what he thinks is clear and consistent: U.S. long-range striking power is being neglected. LeMay fought for greater strategic bomber strength as boss of the Strategic Air Command, and last week he took on the Kennedy Administration with gusto. Taking blunt issue with McNamara's proposed 1962-63 budget, LeMay told the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee that the Air Force must have 300 new Minuteman ICBMs instead of the planned 200. LeMay also took issue with McNamara's plan to spend a total...
...dinner. Imagine our surprise when a shopper advised us to try the whale steak. Try it we did that evening and found it to be perfectly tender and delicious. We could not tell it from a juicy sirloin. Our six-year-old ate it with gusto...
...part of God, demands it: "I act well with God. I give him good food and good women. I want to go to heaven." Paco himself fluctuates between elation and despair in this diverse amalgam of nihilism and jollity, which is sometimes reminiscent of Beckett but spiced with Hispanic gusto...
...world's longest mustache? Who was the world's most productive mother? No standard reference book troubles with such trivia, but an offbeat guide called The Guinness Book of Records answers such questions with gusto. And because it does, Guinness has become a useful handbook for any newspaperman who wants to spice a story with a few superlatives. Last week the second U.S. edition was rolling off the presses with the latest answers to unlikely questions: the world's mustache champ, says the new Guinness, is Masudiya Din. a Bombay Brahman who sports...