Word: throng
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proof of his penny wisdom. Expatriate Getty went pound-foolish with a vengeance. To Sutton Place he invited some 80 gilded guests for dinner on gold plate, then opened the estate to more than a thousand other assorted peers, nobles, high officials, new and old rich. The after-dessert throng carried on in grand style till dawn and on. By then the hardy stragglers were surfeited with champagne, whisky and sturgeon eggs-plus beer for the inelegant and unlimited milk for nondrinkers. When the fireworks, dancing (to three orchestras) and tippling (at four bars) were all over, many...
...occasion for the North Dakota trip was next week's special election of a new U.S. Senator to fill the seat of the late "Wild Bill" Langer. The contestants-Republican Governor John E. Davis and Democratic Congressman Quentin Burdick-were all but lost in the throng of their supporting casts. Jack Kennedy and Stu Symington got out of town as Nixon arrived, and Nelson Rockefeller, House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck and Senate Campaign Director Barry Goldwater have all taken their turns on the stump...
More of Everything. Milan last week was the pace setter in the astonishing postwar boom that has enabled the storied country of palaces, cathedrals and antiquities to climb in industrial production to third place in Western Europe. Nearly 500,000 cars throng the streets, which are wide by Italian standards and spotlessly clean by any standards. Traffic moves faster and with better discipline than in anarchic Rome, yet the accident rate is higher. The Milanese have an explanation: local drivers and pedestrians are so engrossed in important affairs that they often forget to look where they are going...
Drums for Independence. West Africans, who number about 7,000 in London, center on the dreary red brick building of the West African Students Union in Warrington Crescent. East Africans throng the tall, modern Georgian building near Marble Arch called East Africa House, a combination university hostel and West End club. East Africa House is subsidized by the individual colonial governments, but members also pay an annual subscription. The different nationalities generally group together. In the pleasant bar, Moslem Somalis sit in one corner drinking Coca-Cola; a group of Kenyans sip martinis, Tanganyikans have their whiskies, and a Uganda...
Verwoerd had no such intention. "Should multiracial government succeed in South Africa . . . inevitably it will mean Bantu domination over all," he cried to the throng gathered to celebrate the nation's soth anniversary. "The whites must continue to govern." And in case anyone had any doubts that apartheid was still to remain the holy doctrine, he called for full speed ahead on the vast project to herd millions of South African blacks into segregated tribal states in the virgin bush...