Word: furore
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...treatment. They pointed to the fact that Puerto Rico, which was anxious to have Phillips, was represented by the Washington law firm of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas, a close friend of Lyndon Johnson's. Phillips' attorney, moreover, was former Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman. Despite the furor, Johnson finally approved the quota change last month after Puerto Rican officials pointed out that, among 12 oil companies, only Phillips had agreed to their joint venture and reinvestment requirements...
...been much of a subject for official debate since women got the vote. Now, however, as an unpredictable result of the 1964 Voting Rights Act, la différence bids fair to stir another furor. At issue is a clause in the law that bars job discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin -or sex. Among harried employers, the new law has become known as the "Bunny problem," because of an extreme but oft-cited example of the problems it may pose. Suppose, runs the hypothetical question, a man applies for a job as a Playboy Club Bunny...
Died. Katharine Susan Anthony, 87, bestselling biographer of some of history's more notable women, a onetime Wellesley College geometry teacher and psychiatry buff who enthusiastically delved into such psyches as those of Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette and Louisa May Alcott, caused a furor with her 1945 The Lambs, in which she theorized that Essayists Charles and Mary Lamb turned to writing as a sublimation of their incestuous love; following a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Deep Recall. As in most press-fueled controversies, the facts were largely obscured by the furor. Last week's free-for-all started with an article in Look in which CBS Newsman Eric Sevareid described-as he had on TV last summer-a conversation that he had with Adlai Stevenson shortly before his death. In a section buried deep in the article, Sevareid recalled that Stevenson had talked of behind-the-scenes arrangements made by U.N. Secretary-General U Thant in the early fall of 1964 to have a North Vietnamese emissary and a U.S. delegate open talks...
Last week's furor kept Kashmir in the headlines, which is just where the Pakistanis want it. Their worst fear is that the crisis will fade before the U.N. does something about it. Meanwhile, dug-in Pakistani and Indian troops face each other along the 1,500-mile truce line from Rajasthan in the south to Kashmir in the north. India has charged Pakistan with 585 violations in 34 days. Pakistan has countered with accusations of 450 incidents by India. In his first visit to the front, India's Shastri last week exhorted his soldiers "to be alert...