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...1930s, '40s and early '50s, whose red-haired beauty and deep velvet voice perfectly suited the gun molls and dance-hall girls she played in scores of potboilers (Torrid Zone) and some critical successes (King's Row), then, as her looks and the movieland whirl (including marriages to Actors Edward Norris and George Brent) faded, went into semiretirement until last year, when she married Actor Scott McKay and made a comeback in CBS's comedy series, Pistols 'n' Petticoats; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...Commission will probably not be convinced by this and will give the lottery and the country a whirl...
...Jones sleeves French cuffs wide leather belt suede spade polka dot high rise plaid low rise dress non-dress stovepipe pinstripe bell-bottom subtle trumpet blaring--these clothes are moving, the whole store is moving. The music pounding out from the radio baby baby baby while these clothes whirl you around and around...
...enough and there is sufficient cloud turbulence, regions begin exchanging streams of charged droplets. When two of these counter-flowing streams-which move as fast as 500 m.p.h.-are within a quarter to half a mile of each other, the droplets act as an electrostatic motor rotor. As they whirl, they whip the surrounding air into the familiar and dreaded funnel...
...flown to South Viet Nam for his eighth inspection trip since the war began heating up in 1962. As usual, McNamara spent the first two days in the briefing rooms of Saigon. Then, again as usual, he climbed into khakis and scuffed brown desert boots for a two-day whirl through American units stationed all over the country. He listened to reports on Operation Irving from Air Cav officers in the central swamplands, watched A-4 Skyhawks being catapulted off the deck of the carrier Oriskany, paid brief visits to Danang, Cu Chi and the rapidly building military port...