Word: whirls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...austere and frugal man, who shuns Santiago's chandeliered La Moneda palace for a bachelor apartment and walks to work each morning, it was quite a whirl. In the U.S. last week for a seven-day official visit, Chile's Businessman-President Jorge Alessandri, 66, was whisked into a helicopter after ceremonies at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, plunked down an hour later on the White House lawn. An honor guard snapped to attention, 21 guns roared a salute in the freezing air, and President Kennedy stepped forward with words of friendship and welcome. Then came a round...
...C.E.A. is actually two accelerating devices--a linear accelerator, which feeds electrons into the rings, and the circular "race track" itself. After injection, the electrons whirl around the circular orbit through a slender evacuated stainless-steel tube, The tube lies sandwiched between the jaws of 48 C-shaped magnets, each 12 feet long and weighing six tons. These magnets provide the transverse force which keeps the electrons in a circular path...
...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...