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Word: furor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slowed by another parachute, the empty Vostok VI landed near by. Two hours and 46 minutes later and some 500 miles away, Bykovsky landed similarly in the meadow of a collective farm after a record 81 orbits and 119 hours aloft. But Bykovsky was all but forgotten in the furor over Valya. Television commentators described her "cornflower blue eyes," and peasants showered her with bouquets. Overcome by her welcome, Valya broke into tears; it was the first time, Moscow assured the world, that anyone had seen her cry since she was a child. In a telephone conversation with Nikita Khrushchev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Women Are Different | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

Amid all the furor about the letter, more substantial fuel was added last week to the Liberal-Conservative controversy about U.S.-Canadian defense policy. This time, it was reports that the U.S. might base eight squadrons of jet interceptors in Canada.-Pearson's Defense Minister said he has had "in formal intimations" of such a proposal, but both Pearson and the Pentagon denied that any official request had been made. In any event, the new storm brought fresh Conservative charges of a Pearson "surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Letter | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

Firsts seem to be a specialty of Hamilton Holmes, 21. He set off a furor in 1961 as one of the first two Negroes to enter the desegregated University of Georgia as a transfer student from Morehouse (Negro) College in Atlanta. Once the initial excitement was over, he burrowed into his books, became the first Negro to win acceptance at Atlanta's Emory University Medical School, which he enters next fall. And last week Holmes gained further distinction as the University of Georgia's first Negro member of Phi Beta Kappa. His grades to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 3, 1963 | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...This is like Kafka," muttered tried-and-blue Comedian Lenny Bruce, 37, hung up at Idlewild Airport by customs officials after a fast round trip to Britain, where the Home Office denied him entry. His London nightclub booking set off a parliamentary furor-"If we want four-letter words," sniffed a Tory M.P., "we can train our own people"-but that was the least of Lenny's worries. Back home, he was booked solid. Appealing a one-year jail sentence for an obscenity conviction in Chicago, he faced a similar charge in California, plus two narcotics raps. Wherever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 19, 1963 | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

Sachar himself minimized the significance of "the furor that has excited the Brandeis campus." "Inevitably, when an issue involving academic freedom or freedom of speech arises on campus," he explained, "faculty and students become tremendously exercised. And they should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Hikers Take Scottish Challenge To Fifty-Five-Mile Walks | 4/13/1963 | See Source »

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