Word: makeshift
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...teen-age boy ran down the street, screaming: "Oh, those people are burning to death!" A passing priest rushed into his church for holy oil and ran out again to administer rites to the charred bodies. Seven alarms jammed the area with fire equipment. Ambulances lined up at makeshift morgues-a bowling alley and a vacant store-to transfer bodies to hospitals...
...night wore on, crowds gathered outside the Hyannis National Guard Armory, where carpenters had set up a makeshift platform from which Kennedy would make his nationwide victory speech. Pranksters hoisted a stuffed elephant on a telephone pole; newsmen milled about, waiting. Agents of the U.S. Secret Service, assigned to guard the winning candidate, notified the local police that they would move in when certain victory was assured...
With that Kennedy left, walked down the corridor to his makeshift office. "You were great," said jubilant Bobby Kennedy, but Kennedyites sensed that Nixon had landed what they called an "emotional" punch in the exchange over Quemoy and Matsu. Said Jack: "Will somebody please get Jackie on the phone?" Richard Nixon, heading down Nebraska Avenue toward his Wesley Heights home, stopped at a traffic light, heard a motorist shout through the window: "You really clobbered him tonight." When he got home, one of his daughters met him at the door. "Daddy," cried she, "you did great!" A more impersonal reaction...
...film. The scene shifts rapidly from a shot of the Hiroshima museum, to some of the relics of the attack, to graphic sections of film taken in Hiroshima immediately after the bombing. Terrified men and women swim, in flame covered rivers; thousands of people, living and dead, huddle in makeshift hospital-shelters. Director Alain Resnais spares the viewer nothing--the camera methodically records all of the most gruesome effects of immediate radiation burn and lingering radiation sickness, and it is often a few moments before the viewer realizes the full horror of what he has just seen...
Election Year Caution. What the interplay of indicators-classical or makeshift-can never capture is the mood of the U.S. economy, which motivates most business decisions. Last week that mood was outspokenly cautious. The U.S. economy is temporarily without its most historic feature: momentum. This made the task of the indicator readers difficult and frustrating, but some put it all down to the fact that summer is typically the slack season for business expansion, and that U.S. businessmen are traditionally hesitant about making business decisions in an election year. As a so-so third quarter draws toward a close, most...