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About three-quarters of the weddings take place in the chapel instead of the main church. Allen claims he can run a chapel wedding once an hour, but he allows an hour and a half between "big weddings" in the main church. He still remembers a hectic February day when there were five marriages in succession...
Child of Morning has Margaret O'Brien in a hectic role of Clare Boothe's very mystic and moral play. 8:30 at the Shubert...
...experiment become clear. For all the tremendous good it had wrought, U.S. rule had recognized old Spanish land grants, many of them dubious, which gave a few favored families a stranglehold. Free trade with the U.S. had given the Philippines the bloom of apparent health, but it was a hectic flush: the islands were not prepared to stand on their own economic feet. The sugar kings and wealthy traders had prospered, but thousands of tenant farmers were left in discontented peonage. The seed of freedom had sprouted, but the soil of order on which freedom must grow had been neglected...
...McCarthy-Dorgan bill to outlaw the Party came up first in a hectic March 14 hearing before the Committee on Constitutional Law. Dorgan accused President Conant of refusing "to remove Communists from his teaching staff," and mentioned Harlow Chapley, Professor of Astronomy, as unfit to teach because of alleged Communist affiliations ("alleged" referring to Senator McCarthy's charges against Shapley.) Representative Meyer Peterson sounded the keynote: "What is the Supreme Court worry about the constitutionality of this bill? It's about time we took some positive action...
...these rather hectic days of stress and strain we are happy to point out that there is one little magazine in the world (ours) which feels that the mere changing of seasons is a wonderful and momentous thing and we are glad that we have the facilities to record that change...