Word: wispyness
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The dark, wispy little man with the high forehead and the doe-brown eyes raised his hands. Softly he blew into the instrument half-hidden between his palms. He could no more describe the magic than could his friend Feather, after seeing a similar performance almost 20 years ago. There...
Died. James Gleason, 72, wispy, slang-spouting cinemactor who inevitably turned up as the prizefight manager, the private eye, the top sergeant or the political crony in scores of films, from Here Comes Mr. Jordan to The Last Hurrah, onetime Broadway playwright who hit the big time in 1925 with...
Britain's respected Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot (who previously guided both the Nigerians and Jamaicans on the road to independence) moved swiftly to reduce onerous restrictions, so that Makarios and Turkish Cypriot leaders would find it easier to sell the compromise plan to a doubting populace. Swallowing hard...
When proud little Amintore Fanfani resigned as Premier three weeks ago, Italy's big Christian Democratic Party seemed hopelessly divided against itself and listing to the left. The Christian Democrats lack 26 votes of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, and Fanfani was kept in office only by...
But in the ornate palace he is occupying for a second term (his first: 1939-45), wispy, white-haired President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, 69, told TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho in elegant French: "Be tranquil, mon cher. There will be no collapse." Quite possibly he was right. In a...