Word: furor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These business losses, more than any questions of morality or archaism, seem to be behind the current furor over Blue Laws. The trouble actually started last June, when the Supreme Court declared the laws constitutional. The 1960 Legislature added to the problem by putting holidays under statutes which previously restricted only Sunday trade. Gov. Volpe sought clarification by appointing a 20-man commission, which studied the question for five months, and this week submitted its report...
Lost Services. In the furor that followed the Overseas Weekly article, the Army relieved Walker of his command. An Army investigation found that Walker had violated regulations by trying to influence the votes of his men, had taken part in "controversial activities which were beyond the prerogatives of a senior military commander." Thus the Army lost the services of a rugged, experienced fighting man in a critical cold-war spot. During World War II, Walker led the eliteist Special Service Force through Italy, France and Germany. In Korea, he commanded the artillery at Heartbreak Hill. When he resigned from...
...Pygmy Cosmopolitan." Moscow's biggest literary furor in months was prompted by another Evtushenko poem, Bdbiy Yar, named for a ravine near Kiev where the Nazis massacred 52,000 Jews. In a moving lament that was also a call to resist the anti-Semitism of Khrushchev's Russia, Poet Evtushenko-who is not Jewish-mourned...
...brought with him an invitation from President Kennedy. The same day, Goulart called in Communist Poland's visiting Foreign Minister, Adam Rapacki, awarded him the Order of the Southern Cross-the same decoration that Quadros hung on Cuba's Marxist mastermind, Che Guevara, setting off the furor that in time toppled Quadros. To be sure that no one missed the point, Brazil's Foreign Minister announced that his nation no longer considered itself a member of the Western bloc, and was going to stop "playing with marked cards in the U.N." For example, he said. Brazil favors...
While all the furor did the schools no good, a remodeled system might be the best thing that ever happened to them...