Word: furore
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With the same memorializing fervor that seized the U.S. after John Kennedy's death, the French are busy inscribing the late Charles de Gaulle's name on squares and avenues in hundreds of towns throughout the country. One rechristening has created a national furor: the Paris municipal council's unanimous but hasty decision last week to change the Place de 1'Etoile to Place Charles de Gaulle. Judging from newspaper editorials and talk in the bistros, vast numbers of Frenchmen seemed to feel that the famous site of the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb...
...riot. Louisville Bishop C. Gresham Marmion asked that the grant be deferred until the three had been tried, but Leon Modeste, the black layman who directs the Special Program, made the grant on schedule. In North Carolina, a $30,000 grant to the Malcolm X Liberation University created a furor when the local bishop was denied a voice in passing on the grant. Episcopalians in his diocese cut their contributions by one-third...
...Nelson wrote a series of articles charging Milledgeville (Ga.) Central State Hospital with using experimental drugs on mental patients without the permission or knowledge of relatives, hiring doctors who used alcohol and drugs on duty, even letting nurses perform major surgery when doctors were absent. The resulting furor ended with the resignation of Milledgeville's chief surgeon and seven other doctors. The hospital superintendent retired, and the hospital was removed from the jurisdiction of the graft-ridden public welfare department and transferred to the public health department. Nelson's Milledgeville exposé won him a Pulitzer Prize...
...furor over Harvard's I. R. A. boycott is fairly recent, actually. As late as 1965, when Harvard's dominance was unquestionable, Sports Illustrated considered the Syracuse regatta little more than a runner up event, and that year, after Navy had upset the field there, the magazine ran a banner headline over its story that read-CHAMPIONSHIPS MINUS THE CHAMP. The cover showed a montage of coach Harry Parker and "The World's Best Crew," and inside, Whall was saying, "When Harvard shows up competition seems to vanish." Later than a month later, however, the Vesper Boat Club defeated...
...your sophomore year, you will recall for example, there was a considerable furor over who should or should not be permitted on campus to interview graduating students for possible jobs. The SDS, playing on a dissatisfaction widely held in our community, made an inflammatory issue out of the presence of a Dow recruiter on the campus, implying that his presence proved the University's insidious complicity in the hated war effort...