Word: furor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after the election furor arose a new one, over investigations into education, which tied up Harvard and the nation so closely that the CRIMSON wrote, in all, seven editorials on different phases of it. The CRIMSON, while gradually recognizing the inevitability of the investigations as a sop to public opinion, has consistently opposed the men and methods of their conduct. On January 15, we said...
Just when the furor had died down, the University appointed former track captain and coach William J. Bingham '16 as the first athlete director "His will be a general supervision of University athletics. The job is impossible to describe, since there is no precedent for comparison," the CRIMSON claimed, and then they raised the price of student tickets to the Yale and Princeton to $2.00. There were few complaints, and then Bingham announced his "athletics for all" program, stressing greater cooperation among various coaches...
...news throughout the fall was still in athletics. Added to the furor about de-emphasis came the specific problem of the Princeton game. There had been rumors that Harvard wanted to drop the Tigers for a few years so as to play Michigan. But on October 8 Athletic Director Bingham announced that this idea had been abandoned, that the traditional game would be held as usual in 1927, and that "relations between Harvard and Princeton are excellent and I am confident that nothing will arise to disturb the amicability of the relationship...
DESPITE the furor over the $5 billion cut in the Air Force budget, planemakers are not worried-yet. Not only has there been no warning of contract cancellations among the old-line companies, but Boeing expects to hire another 1,600 workers this summer, mainly for B-52 production. North American is keeping up its fast pace on F-86 Sabre jets; Lockheed expects that "production will continue at its present high level for some time." The planemakers even hope that a revision may stabilize plane building and avert drastic cuts a few years hence...
...DRESS!" cried a newspaper headline. "EXCITEMENT IN THE AIR!" exclaimed another. Britons by the thousands clustered around the entrances to Westminster Abbey where, in a few days, the second Elizabeth will be crowned. On three successive days, the smiling young Queen, patient, graceful and composed through all the furor, turned up at the Abbey with a 2-shilling coronation guide in her hand for rehearsals of the ceremony...