Word: twirling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister Krag took a few sedate turns around the floor, Lyndon Johnson spread charm as if his name were Jensen. He foxtrotted with Helle Krag, 40, for the first half of the evening, gave her over to frugging Hubert Humphrey for the second half, then went on to twirl with women who did not have husbands. In the East Room, Humphrey was hardly No. 2. The President danced very well, Mrs. Krag was careful to observe. But the Vice President, she marveled, was nothing less than "fantastic." Only slightly plagiarizing Lerner and Loewe, she exclaimed: "I could have danced...
After five hours of uninterrupted whoopdedoo, Bandleader Lee Evans pointedly played The Party's Over-over and over. After five reruns he switched to Hello, Dolly!, Lyndon's campaign theme. That was a mistake. Johnson jumped up for a quick twirl around the floor-and then seven more. What could Evans do? In desperation, the band plunged Deep in the Heart of Texas. The crowd clapped for more. Finally, at 3 a.m., Evans struck up Good Night Ladies, and with its dying strains Lyndon Johnson reluctantly left the floor. Next year he can expect King Frederik...
...Aranguren is a leader-in-exile of the Spanish student movement. He is a thin, dapper man, constantly moving, even when he is sitting down, talking: his hands twirl like pinwheels when he hunts for an English word, and deep lines crease his forehead as he organizes his thoughts. He is always the teacher and writer--he wrote several books on religion and ethics before joining the faculty of the University of Madrid in 1955--forever putting things in historical and philosophical perspective. He is currently on a lecture tour of universities in the United States, speaking on philosophy...
...museum in Ponce, designed by Edward Durell Stone and almost entirely bankrolled by Industrialist Luis Ferré, who is a three-time loser in the island's gubernatorial elections. Seven skylighted interior galleries are hexagonal, juxtaposing art works that can be scanned in a single twirl...
...schools. "We are expecting too much of our schools and too fast." Emphatically no, declares Admiral Hyman Rickover, the foremost gadfly in the groves of academe. "We have the slowest-moving school system in the civilized world. Precious school hours are wasted teaching children how to make fudge, twirl batons, drive cars, budget income, handle the telephone and catch fish...