Word: furor
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...matter what happens in court, the furor over Harbor Lawn has brought closer scrutiny of the cremation business. Next month a new California law goes into effect making it a crime to conduct mass cremations or commingle ashes...
Judge Morris Lasker reached the end of his patience and on Oct. 31 ordered the city to find some way to remove at least 341 inmates from the jails immediately. The city then proceeded to release 610 inmates, many with long criminal records. A political furor resulted when one was rearrested within two days on a charge of rape. The October reopening of the renovated Manhattan House of Detention, better known as the Tombs, will not help much, because officials plan to limit its population to one prisoner for each of its relatively luxurious 421 cells. Judge Lasker closed...
Yale spokesman Walter Little said Sunday that the security force was adequate to meet the need. "It is terribly difficult to control the crowd and keeping it from pulling down the goal without creating more of a furor," he added...
That justification for an unprecedented news blackout instantly raised a furor. Major news organizations fired off stiff protests. The American Society of Newspaper Editors formally complained that the exclusion went "beyond the normal limits of military censorship." Two more days passed before the first handful of reporters were escorted to Grenada...
...scheduled to be installed by the end of the year. They include nine Pershing Us destined for West Germany, 16 cruise missiles for Britain and 16 for Italy. (The rest are to be delivered over the next four years.) The initial 41 missiles have become the focus of a furor essentially because they are the first U.S-controlled nuclear missiles on European soil since the early 1960s that are capable of reaching the Soviet Union. As such, they have become symbols for larger questions raised by the peace movement...