Word: hecticly
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Lyndon, of course, accepted second billing after losing the nod to J.F.K., and in the hectic vice-presidential campaign that followed, Moyers alone could control the disarray for which the boss was notorious. He knew the schedules, kept the press informed, proved a whiz at making arrangements. He claims he was no more than "hands and feet" during the entire operation, but Lyndon obviously valued him more highly than that. So did Kennedy's Irish Mafia, whose members found Moyers one of the few Johnson aides with whom they could work. After the inauguration, Moyers was installed...
...cement dust, grinned delightedly over their lunchtime beers and sandwiches as she accompanied Architect Marcel Breuer on an inspection tour of the new Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan. Meantime, at some less gritty feeds, old New Frontier Friend Nicole Alphand was swirling around town winding up a hectic month of goodbyes. Everyone was a little mournful now that French Ambassador Hervé Alphand was taking his glittering wife back to Paris, where he will become Secretary General of the French Foreign Office. Said Dean Rusk, recalling Nicole's brilliant seven-year social reign in the capital...
...production numbers featured colorful costumes, and played themselves against well-lit sets that, if slightly hectic, were attractive in design. I could have sworn they stole the tapestries and chandeliers for one scene from the Eliot House dining room, which says something for the authenticity of the show's medieval atmosphere...
Having a Wild Weekend is the Dave Clark Five's hectic attempt to trot in the Beatles' cinematic footsteps. If they, in turn, are going to be followed by the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the other rock-a-pop groups with Beatle haircuts, this new vague may well be the most depressing thing to happen in darkened theaters since Follow-the-Bouncing-Ball...
...from bad to worse as the U.S. poured in more men and equipment, and as the Viet Cong chewed up battalion after battalion of South Vietnamese troops. To be sure, the U.S. ground force had little chance to do more than establish its defense perimeters during those hectic months; the Communists gained momentum by launching their own monsoonal drive. Since the onset of the summer rains two months ago, the stain of Red domination has spread swiftly (see map); the Communists now control 65% of the countryside and fully 55% of the country's 16 million population...