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Noon to Night. After the first wild clamor for polio vaccine when it was released two years ago, few seemed to care when, last summer, unused supplies of the vaccine started to pile up. Most doctors did little to persuade adults that they should get the same shots as their children, injected the vaccine in their offices at standard fees. The turning point came in January, when the American Medical Association - which had been notably unenthusiastic about free or cut-rate inoculations - finally urged its members to develop mass-inoculation programs...
...want our Pope," they shouted in Vietnamese, shaking their fists in the faces of the bewildered Americans. As the clamor rose, the Vestal Virgins whipped out huge banners bearing the same demand in English. "This is not religious," muttered one bewildered movieman. "This looks political to me." But he kept his cameras grinding. At last, as suddenly as it had begun, the disturbance was over, and the frenzied crowd disappeared from the square, leaving behind them a cloud of yellow dust kicked up by the stamping of thousands of frantic feet...
...Guggenheim Fellowship enable him to work on Clamor, a book intended to complement his former writings. He was given the Award of Merit of the American Academy of Arts and letters...
...loud did the clamor become that it reached at last to Tito himself. In Belgrade, Government Spokesman Branko Draskovic announced coldly that Tito's U.S. visit "will not take place for the time being because the conditions and atmosphere created in the U.S. in connection with it have shown that the time for such a visit is not ripe...
...film Martin Luther for its U.S. TV première, Roman Catholics swamped the station with protesting letters, postcards and telephone calls. Sample: "We object to you showing the film because it makes a hero out of a rat." WGN abruptly canceled the movie. That set up a new clamor. Lutherans, other Protestants, some Jewish groups objected furiously, sent 1,000 telegrams of protest in a single day. The National Council of Churches called the cancellation "a blow to religious liberty." Cried an American Civil Liberties Union spokesman: "This thing is outrageous! If people don't like...