Word: restlessness
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...successors, Ramon Grau San Martin and Carlos Prio Socarras, were constitutionally elected. But while Grau and Prio grew wealthy amid unparalleled graft and corruption, the ex-strongman became restless in his premature retirement. In 1948 he supported a presidential candidate who was soundly defeated. Then, in 1952, Batista ran for the presidency himself. Eighty-two days before the election, when it became obvious that he would lose, Batista staged an army coup, regained power, and has held it ever since...
Although his ashes have long since been scattered over his beloved Greenland settlement of Thule, Freuchen's restless mind still seems alive. After four months on the counters, his encyclopedic Book of the Seven Seas (Julian Messner; $7.50) remains a bestseller. Probably headed for the list is Freuchen's final work. The Arctic Year, written with Ornithologist Finn Salomonsen (Putnam; $5.95). It deserves a place alongside Freuchen's earlier, bulky volumes of autobiography as a classic study of life in the North...
...Fellow. Lyndon Johnson has never ridden higher, and he should be a happy man. But he is not, and he may never be. He sits at his command-post desk in Office G14, Senate wing, U.S. Capitol, restless with energy, tumbling with talk. He flashes gold cuff links, fiddles with the gold band of a gold wristwatch, toys with a tiny gold pillbox, tinkers with a gold desk ornament. And he glances often at the green wall, where hangs Edmund Burke's framed warning about the vexations of leadership...
...restless moments, the sweat-suited athletes stopped their interminable calisthenics on the Madison Square Garden infield. Officials, wilting behind their boiled shirts, quit clicking stop watches and came to a semblance of attention. The American flag was hoisted, a weary baritone worked his way through the national anthem and the 51st annual Millrose Games, already two-thirds over, roared a welcome to the evening's last hope for a hero. Dublin-bred Ron Delany was stripping to his skivvies for a shot at his third Wanamaker Mile, and there was a slim chance that the slim Villanova senior would...
Zero Hour. The Lumbees were restless because the Klan had burned two crosses as warnings to Indians to keep their place. (Backward Robeson County has three-way segregation in schools.) Despite the gentle protests of their elders, and of community officials around the county, many of the Lumbees calmly began to polish squirrel rifles and knives. Rumors ran that ammunition and other arms were selling at a fast clip in neighborhood shops. When the Klan sent around handbills announcing a rally in a field near Maxton, the Indians fixed their zero hour...