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...cause of the furor is 20-year-old, blue-eyed, chestnut-haired Toni Avril Gardiner. Granddaughter of a shepherd and daughter of an army officer, Toni was born in Suffolk, educated in Anglican schools in England except for a three-year sojourn in Malaya (1955-58), when her father put in a stint in Kuala Lumpur. After finishing high school, Toni went to work as a payroll clerk for London's Peak Engineering Co. But, as one company official tactfully explained, "her calculations were rather erratic," and she ended up on the telephone switchboard...
...Euripides developed it, the tragedy was nature's rebuke to pride. Hippolytus had ignored the elemental force of love. In Racine's hands, the focus is on the hysteric furor of a woman scorned, the unrequited love that becomes undiluted hate. Phaedra's pathos is to writhe vainly in a jungle of untamed instincts...
Until Governor Volpe started the uproar about highways, it seemed as though Cambridge had reconciled itself to marriage with the Inner Belt route--at an indefinite future time. With the furor, this reconciliation disintegrated. Where there had been at best a strained unity on the choice of one route in particular, now the champions of other routes and of no route at all are back in the battle...
Despite whatever furor the Councilor and others can raise, the party in Cambridge is almost certain to be tragic...
...first national report on the John Birch Society-the antediluvian secret society of political right-wingers-appeared in TIME March 10, and was read into the Congressional Record by North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton R. Young. There has been a headline furor almost ever since, with this week's installment reported in THE NATION...