Word: lurchings
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...judge by the headlines, Latin America's two largest nations lurch from one political crisis to another; and to judge by their falling currency, both Brazil and Argentina are in an economic mess. The headlines are true and the financial crisis is real, but people long inured to trouble develop their own saving methods of endurance, apathy or escapism. Citizens of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro went about their affairs with a benumbed kind of ordinariness last week. Argentines flocked to the horse races at Palermo Hippodrome; Brazilians poured into Maracana Stadium for a futebol match. While they...
...obviously wasn't easy. Cole Porter's score, except for "C'est Magnifique," "It's All Right With Me," and "I Love Paris," is not one to make hearts beat wildly. The book, by Abe Burrows, is chaotic, and the entire show proceeds at a lurch. If there is any greatness to be found in Can-Can it is in the spirit of the thing. At Winthrop, the atmosphere may not be that of Paris in 1893, but it is a wonderful spirit nonetheless...
...fifth the population of Cuba and can scarcely field an army of two divisions, Albania was talking pretty defiantly. Hoxha seemed to be counting on his belief that Albanians had "friends and comrades in the Communist countries who have not left them and will not leave them in the lurch...
...predict the cost this year, but needs are obvious. Latest estimate of the public school classroom shortage is 156,000 against 132,400 a year ago. The defeat of President Kennedy's aid-to-education bill left many a school system in the lurch-although Congressmen who opposed the bill last week voted to help their own "federally impacted" districts, where the loss of such long-established aid would be political suicide. One clue to possible taxpayer reaction is the fact that last year 23% of all U.S. school-bond issues were rejected, including 37% in Michigan...
...airline passenger's second greatest fear usually is for his luggage. Most of the time he hauls his bags to the counter, waits in line to have them weighed and ticketed, and watches them lurch away, neurotically convinced they will be dented beyond recognition or sent on the wrong plane to the wrong place. At the other end of a trip, he mills around in the baggage claim area, waiting for what seems like a longer time than the duration of the flight itself. Last week, at Los Angeles' new International Airport, United Air Lines launched a completely...