Word: hecticly
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...early, hectic jockeying, California's James Hughes missed a turn in his green Lotus, killed Photographer George Thompson of the Tampa Tribune, and then was killed himself as the car flipped onto its back. For six hours the Porsche team of German Cafe Owner Hans Hermann, 31, and veteran Belgian Driver Olivier Gendebien, 36, patiently waited back in the pack. One by one the Ferraris broke down under the strain as the Maserati bellowed to a six-lap lead. But at 6:10 p.m., just as headlights flickered on, Moss eased his low-slung car off the course with...
...Bandleader Desi Arnaz, were married in 1940, acquaintances of the volatile lovebirds gave their union six months at most before an inevitable explosion would send them on separate ways. Lucy herself doubted that the match was good for six weeks. Last week, after more than 19 years of sometimes hectic marriage, and two children (Lucy, 8; Desi IV, 7), Lucy and Desi, co-bosses of Desilu Productions, Inc. (grossing more than $20 million a year) and co-stars of TV's longtime rating-topper I Love Lucy, called quits to the marriage but announced that Desilu Productions would still...
Cuba's revolution now seems aimed at taking over every institution, business and property of note in the country. Fidel Castro's National Institute for Agrarian Reform (I.N.R.A.) has blanket authority to seize land, and it is doing just that at a hectic pace. His Ministry for the Recovery of Stolen Government Property grabs all possessions of "counter-revolutionaries," real and imagined. To this pair of communizing agencies, Castro last week added a third: the Labor Ministry, which got decree power to take over any business or labor organization...
...offers a patient ear and a radicalism as woolly as Castro's own. Her apartment, where she keeps a freshly laundered shirt for him and a maid to prepare his favorite fish-and-rice breakfast, is one of Castro's favorite ports of call in his hectic junketing about Havana...
...Butterfly (RCA Victor) and Capriccio (Angel). As Verdi's consumptive heroine, she demonstrated last week that her acting is almost as good as her voice. Strikingly handsome in a hoopskirted, bare-shouldered, pink ball gown, she made the Violetta of Act I into a moving figure of feverishly hectic gaiety. As the opera progressed, the coquettish attitudes gave way gradually, until by the final act Violetta emerged as a woman of tragic stature. Throughout, the radiant, controlled voice lent a superb air of emotional conviction to the great arias...