Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than Sánchez Vilella. He is extremely shy, has none of the klieg-light blaze and charm of Muñoz. Last week, while Muñoz fought through his farewell speech, Sánchez Vilella stood nervously mopping his face with a handkerchief balled tightly around an ice cube. "I was paralyzed," he said later. "It was awful. There was one moment when the crowd was almost hysterical, shouting 'No, no,' and I was snouting it too. Inside." But Puerto Ricans know him as a first-rate administrator, smart, experienced and quite capable of carrying...
...ever-expanding array of aerosol cans that has brought the pushbutton age to everyday living. There are already more than 300 products available in aerosol cans, and their uses range from the routine to the recondite; they perfume rooms, freshen mattresses, renew golf balls, stiffen petticoats, bandage wounds, de-ice windshields, inflate flat tires, wax furniture, varnish oil paintings, scare off snakes and ward off pregnancies...
Help is on the way. The government is hurrying work on two new canals to bring in more than 1,350,000 tons of water a day from nearby rivers, expects the first to be finished next week. Meantime, Japanese Self-Defense Force planes carrying dry ice and water have pounced on every passing cloud, and on the shores of the Ogochi reservoir, a Shinto priest in the mask of a scarlet lion writhed through a ceremonial rain dance. Townsmen were warned not to expect miracles. "It will take two days for the message to get through to the dragon...
...health, left him unable to talk. He heartened priests, preached long sermons, blessed edifices of various kinds, and everywhere took delight in children. At one town he poured milk into the mugs of several hundred assembled urchins. In a penniless orphanage he committed himself to vast purchases of ice cream for kids, and, reminded that he must always raise money for the missionary society and much more besides, reduced some little girls to giggles by saying, "If you ever marry a millionaire, introduce...
...America Be Seated closed shortly after the fair opened. Another notable dropout was Wonder World, a glossy musical-extravaganza with a cast of 250 that at times was bigger than its audiences. The Texas pavilion's lavish To Broadway with Love and Dick Button's Ice-Travaganza also folded. The Teatro Espanol's guitarists and flamenco dancers would be a hit in Manhattan; at the fair, business is so slow that the Spanish pavilion has slashed admission from $3 to a ridiculously...