Word: furor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politics in the United States has been intensified over the past two years. Operation Camelot, a study of the causes of insurgency in underdeveloped nations, was cancelled by President Johnson after disclosure that the project was being financed by the Army provoked a political tempest in Chile. Another furor greeted reports that the Central Intelligence Agency was involved with a Michigan State University technical assistance program in South Vietnam...
...which had considered previous rights bills in the context of anti-Negro violence by Southern whites, this time worked at least partly in a climate of antiwhite violence by Negroes in the North. Negro protests now sometimes seem isolated and dogmatic, as for instance during last week's furor over a handsome new school in Manhattan's East Harlem, where parents' groups, spurred on by Carmichael, demanded that a capable white principal be replaced by a Negro (see EDUCATION...
...customers are waiting." Pittsburgh Plate Glass has a $125 million program under way to build new chemical facilities because there is a solid, steady demand for such output; a $37 million chlorine and caustic-soda plant at Lake Charles, La., was announced last week in the midst of the furor over the Johnson tax program. Anheuser-Busch has just opened a fifth brewery costing $30 million in Houston and will spend about $50 million on a sixth in Columbus...
...thing, the war in Viet Nam removed thousands of young men and potential customers from the new car market. For another, the nation's tight-money policy made it harder-and more expensive-to buy a car on credit. Most of all, there was the great safety furor, spearheaded by Lawyer-Author Ralph Nader. At one point in July, the inventory of unsold autos, mostly as a result of customer scares over safety, reached 1,700,000, and manufacturers were forced to cut back drastically on production schedules...
Unrelaxing. Neither Doyle Dane Bernbach nor Lufthansa seemed daunted by the growing furor until last week, when the eighth ad in the series was scheduled. It showed a Lufthansa pilot after a rigorous training run-through, and the copy read: "All Lufthansa pilots get put through this ordeal regularly . . . Naturally they can relax a little more in a flight simulator. But being Germans, naturally they don't. Have you ever seen a relaxed German?" The ad showed the Lufthansa pilot on the ground, enjoying a postflight cigarette, and the airline's board of directors ordered it killed...