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Perhaps students needed a new issue in the spring, perhaps they had latent animosities to release; perhaps they were more "conservative" or "traditional" than they like to think. In any case, the furor over the language and format of diplomas shook the College for several weeks. During Commencement Week ten days ago, the diploma issue was mentioned everywhere--from the Ivy Oration to the President's talk to seniors--even by administrators who a month earlier had desperately hoped that the whole matter would be suppressed...
...indemnification" demanded by Cuba. That was where things stood, but it was perfectly predictable that Dictator Castro would drag the whole grisly negotiation out as long as possible-and then, maybe, turn the entire proposition down. As the negotiations and the cable exchanges went on last week, the public furor within the U.S. became increasingly intense. Many Americans believed deeply that the U.S. had a moral obligation to try to rescue the survivors. At the same time, most recognized that the ransom payments were humiliating to the U.S. There could be general agreement that the Kennedy Administration had bungled...
Even as the envelopes piled up. so did the furor over the Kennedy-backed deal. Richard Nixon denounced the trade-which, he warned, could be completed only "at the cost of increasing the power of the tyrant." Mississippi's Representative John Bell Williams introduced a bill that would make the proposed swap a federal offense, punishable by $5,000 fine, three years in prison. Wrote an indignant reader of the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "I have been sick to my stomach with shame...
...their eight-year-old daughter Barbara Louise. Cardinals flitted through the gigantic water oaks and pecan trees on the mansion lawn, and a squad of six Negro trusty prisoners in white uniforms trimmed the grass while the Governor attacked a plate of muffins and bacon. Suddenly a furor arose in the yard. "They've found the horned toad," cried Tuti. "I hope they don't kill...
...Heurtas had no comment on Ray, but when asked why the statement had caused such a furor, he said, "It wouldn't if it had come from the University of Moscow...