Word: whizbanger
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Washington whizbang would elect to take the stand. Yet after the prosecution rested its case, Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams called Baker as his first witness. Displaying little of the bravado of his less troubled days, Bobby calmly told the jury of sundry influence-peddling deals. But his own role, he maintained, had been little more than that of an errand boy for Kerr...
...pride of many a small-budget nation's air force is a snoop-nosed, 1,000-m.p.h. whizbang called the F-5 Freedom Fighter. A flight of Philippine F-5s snapped into escort positions around Air Force One when President Johnson took off on the Manila-to-Bangkok leg of his Southeast Asian trip. Belgium and The Netherlands are about to order the planes. This month Morocco's King Hassan, anxious to retire his aging Russian-built MIG-17s, will take delivery of a dozen...
...collared overcoat with the laven der silk lining, and with well-manicured hands smoothed back a wisp of brown hair. His bright eyes stole briefly across the gathered crowd and looked away again. Then, clutching a black attache case imprinted with his silver initials, Robert Gene Baker, 36, the whizbang from Pickens, S.C., hurried into a hearing room in the old Senate Office Building...
...trying to turn the Communism issue against Nixon, claims that the former Vice President "is dealing in panic," that Nixon is simply rereading the same script that got him elected to Congress in 1946 and to the Senate in 1950. "Clichés like this went out with 'whizbang' and the Stutz Bearcat," cries Brown. But Pat is careful to advocate an expansion of anti-Communism teaching in the schools "in a nonhysterical atmosphere...
Ever since she came to Paris for a premiére in 1951, Italy's earthy Anna Magnani has lived, between films, in semiseclusion on the Left Bank. But for the glittering opening of the Lido's latest braless whizbang, Pour Vous, Anna made the Seine in the unlikely company of Shirley MacLaine. Though the moody Roman appeared to regard the proceedings with dyspeptic disdain, the eupeptic Shirley purred: "Miss Magnani was always one of my favorite actresses, and when we met in 1954, she became one of my favorite people...