Word: hecticly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within hours, TIME correspondents were going after the story in force. And in a year that has seen more than its share of grim news, their assignment offered a pleasant, if hectic, change of pace. A quick phone call to Rome sent Bureau Chief Jim Bell flying off to Athens. There, with the help of our stringer Mario Modiano, Bell chartered the only plane at the airport that was not controlled by either Onassis or the Greek government. He was taken for a look at Onassis' private island of Skorpios, and he is still frightened. "The pilot passed...
Designed to "help students write correct and effective English by presenting the fundamentals of orderly discourse and rhetoric," Harvard's only required course, Expository Writing 10hf is an unsolicited and painful addendum to most Freshmen schedules. Papers are usually submitted after hectic all-nighters (first semester) or two weeks late (second semester), a few books are discussed, but there's little reason to believe that the average freshman emerges with new confidence in his ability to organize a coherent exam essay...
Washington Correspondent Lansing Lamont, who joined the Kennedy caravan last week, also found it hectic. But he had his share of anecdotes from previous travels with Hubert Humphrey. "One afternoon in a jet over Nebraska, I suffered a strange chest seizure after eating a hamburger," he remembers. "I was in agony all through an interview with the Vice President." Ex-pharmacist Humphrey rushed to his medicine chest in the tail of the plane and produced a pill. "Take this," he said. "It will relax the spasm in your esophageal tract." It did. Later, Lamont's doctor confirmed the Humphrey...
...system, says New York Stock Exchange Executive Vice President R. John Cunningham, 41, the man responsible for getting it under way, "relieves brokers of the burden of storing, checking and accounting for stock." Nonetheless, the upsurge in trading-volume on the Big Board is averaging a hectic 12,479,000 shares a day in 1968-means that the C.C.S. alone will probably not be enough even after it is in full operation. So acute is Wall Street's paper deluge that the Big Board has been forced to impose restrictions, including bans on registration of new securities salesmen...
Sharp editing and a mobile, zooming camera carry the fast pace of changing personal and political relationships. This pace is perhaps a bit hectic, especially at the beginning: Bellochio cuts from one liaison to another without letting us figure out ideological or amatory identities. But these are minor confusions that only tumble forward to hit us occasionally, when the rest of the film slows down...