Word: whirligigging
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...Penny Whirligig. Dravot and Carnehan succeed beyond their wildest dreams, and then fall farther than their worst fears. They sweep into the country with a shipment of rifles, organize the natives into armies and take over as rulers. Danny is taken for a god and made king. The .wealth of the entire country is at hand and ready for plunder. Danny, however, decides to live the dream, take a wife and settle into monarchy. Before Peachy starts back across the mountain with half the national treasury, Danny asks him to stay for the wedding. At the ceremony, Danny...
...Pictorial History of the Carousel. To halt the destruction, more than 200 lovers of that old amusement-park staple gathered in Sandwich, Mass., on Cape Cod not long ago to form the National Carousel Roundtable and dedicate themselves to ensuring the future of the merry-go-round, the whirligig and the flying jinny-as carousels have been variously known in their 95-year history...
...Rutgers student's wry reply: "Good fences make good nosegays." At the Burpee Co.'s seed counter, pretty salesgirls showed off the new topper snapdragons, which now come in every shade from lavender to orange. Other new seeds for the season: Burpee's new two-tone Whirligig zinnias and a Yellow Nugget marigold (see color pages), a large bloomer meant to last from Memorial Day to after Labor Day. At Jackson & Perkins, people sentimentalized over last year's John F. Kennedy rose, craned to see the company's newest offerings-a red rose named Mexicana...
Castello Branco is determined to slow the whirligig. His new Minister of Economic Planning, Roberto de Oliveira Campos, 57, onetime Ambassador to the U.S. and a brilliant economist, has eliminated $200 million a year worth of subsidies for wheat, oil and newsprint, has raised taxes and tightened collections. One of his first moves was to end the 75% to 100% salary increases of the Goulart days; he set up credit bureaus to expand farm production and lower food prices. To encourage more investment, the government is also liberalizing profit-remittance laws. This month the Brazilian Congress finally set aside...
Three large yellow and white vans from Washington pulled up at the 85th Street entrance of a Fifth Avenue apartment, and unloaded the toys, clothes and furniture of Jacqueline Kennedy, 35, Caroline, 6, and John Jr., 3. Meanwhile Jackie, staying at the nearby Carlyle Hotel, went through the autumn whirligig of a Manhattan mother, supervising the redecoration of her 15-room duplex, which will be ready in a month or so, enrolling Caroline at the 91st Street Academy of the Sacred Heart, taking John for a ride on the Central Park carrousel. And then one day, she was out with...