Word: whisked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, gnomelike man danced on the floor of the Parliament chamber, fluttering his fly whisk and shouting, "Decision! Decision! Decision!" He was Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda, 58, and he was demanding a clear choice by Parliament between him and a band of five rebel Ministers led by the second most popular man in Malawi (formerly Nyasaland), Education Minister Masauko Chipembere, 34. Parliament's members gave Banda a vote of confidence by acclamation...
...spanking new Wenner-Gren monorail, costing $55 million, will soon whisk tourists from Haneda Airport to downtown Tokyo, while the world's fastest railroad, the 125-m.p.h. Hikari Express (TIME, Sept. 4), runs via artful Kyoto to bustling Osaka in four hours-almost half the time it took before...
...shapes dominate Collie's show at Manhattan's Nordness Gallery. One is a tilted disk that looks like a model of a flying saucer. Such disks jiggle at a fingertip touch, but may weigh as much as 13 Ibs.-as a thief discovered when he tried to whisk one away from the Chrysler Art Museum, only to have it drop with a clang. The second, also a space-age motif, resembles the hollow cone of a missile. Inside, visible from both ends, are two metallic spheres, one hanging down like a tiny bathysphere on its nylon thread...
...salesgirls (average weight: 90 Ibs.), who regard flesh as a disease, treat women of average proportions as carriers, whisk them into the street for quarantine. Anyone weighing more than 100 Ibs. is viewed with scorn. Size 14s are advised to stay indoors, or wear dresses. Nowhere else in the world must the customer alter to fit the clothes...
...affairs get under way at 6 p.m., with many of the Congressmen heading straight for the White House from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, still in their business suits. As waiters whisk through the Red and Green rooms with trays of drinks, the President claps his hands for attention. It is time, he says, to mix a little work with a little play. The members of the House should follow him, the ladies, Mrs. Johnson...