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...racial practices. To head off this vote, the Administration per suades a young Negro Congressman named Cullee Hamilton to propose a joint resolution on Capitol Hill that would apologize to Terrible Terry, grant Goroto $10 million in hush money, and to speed up integration. Subplots sub-subplots whirl around these two resolutions like so many errant satellites; the chapters stretch on and on. In the end, Congress adopts Hamilton's proposal, and the U.N., appeased by the act. turns the Panamanian's resolution...
...announcer's job. In a grand era of such well-remembered voices as Graham McNamee and Clem McCarthy, Husing delighted millions with his coverage, working out phrases ("naked reverse," "a whole host of tacklers") to describe the action for his listeners. At 44, Husing tired of the whirl, decided. "Why shouldn't I make a quarter million dollars a year?" and for a decade was one of radio's highest paid disk jockeys until he suffered a brain tumor in 1954, and, as a friend said, "just seemed to fade away...
...suite at 7:30 a.m.-half an hour behind his boss. While McNamara, with an eye on the clock, slashes away at his paper work, Gilpatric sits suavely behind an unlittered desk, almost always has time for some casual talk with a visitor. When McNamara begins to whirl out a blizzard of "snowflakes"-Pentagonese for his single-page directives that often demand prompt action-Gilpatric may help dig out a snowed-under officer by getting an impossible deadline date extended...
...grand old tradition of kiss-and-sell, sultry Parisian Singer Juliette Greco, 35, let upwards of 10 million European readers in on the details of her four-year whirl with Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, 59, who took her from cellar cafes to stardom in The Roots of Heaven. "What can a young woman see in an elderly tycoon with a toothbrush mustache, who smokes like a chimney, speaks through his nose and is perpetually angry?" asked Juliette in serialized memoirs in Paris Match and London's weekly People. The answer, said she, was that "I have always loved lost...
...gilded mansions of Palm Beach and the palm-fringed villas of the French Riviera for a quarter of a century, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arranged to spend their silver wedding anniversary with what the New York Times termed "symbolic appropriateness''-at sea. After a farewell whirl of champagne-and-caviar parties tossed by Manhattan's ever-doting socialites, Edward, 67, and Wallis, 65, boarded the liner United States for a trip to Europe and a quiet, high-seas celebration in perfect counterpoint to the carnival atmosphere surrounding their 1937 wedding at the Château...