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...with derisive hoots. At last, the defeated wheel man jumped from the car and took to his heels. A few blocks off, the other crooks had abandoned the panel truck and presumably had gone elsewhere to rendezvous with the station wagon. But the imprisoned guards, meanwhile, were raising a clamor, and a passer-by called the police...
...himself. Why did Ike drop from his speech a tribute to Marshall? The professional politicians pointed out that he had already defended Marshall at a news conference and that the repetition "could be interpreted only as a 'chip-on-the-shoulder' attitude. By thus arousing new public clamor, I could be inadvertently embarrassing General Marshall...
Status Quo Vote. Boston's critics clamor for lively innovations, but standardized guides still rule the classrooms. A Ford Foundation project hopes to start upgrading a few have-not schools, but nearby Harvard is given almost no chance to help. Not until last year were a handful of Harvard student teachers even allowed to practice in Boston. "There is no place in the country where a graduate school of education has had less influence on a city school system," says Harvard Education Professor Herold Hunt...
...American funeral director-that dispenser of authoritative and soothing advice-has suddenly found himself shouted at, reproached and de plored in a clamor that has shattered the hush of the nation's funeral parlors and made many an undertaker sweat uneasily beneath his decent black suit...
...strategic nuclear punch, the Army was assigned only a relatively minor role in U.S. defense planning. After Korea the Army gradually dwindled to 14 understrength divisions. Renowned Army Generals Matthew Ridgway, James Gavin and Maxwell D. Taylor resigned in protest against the down-rating of the Army. In his clamor-making book The Uncertain Trumpet, Taylor attacked what he considered excessive reliance on nuclear retaliation...