Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath the almost laughable fuss surrounding the House Armed Services Committee hearings on the draft is a sobering fact: by the time Congress is ready to present the President with a new Selective Service Act, there will be little left resembling the Marshall Commission's laudable recommendations for draft reform. All of the committee members' raging against Stokely Carmichael and all of their prattle about the First Amendment should not obscure the slow erosion of what once seemed a genuine attempt to improve the draft...
Nobody could be more surprised at the fuss than Kodak itself. Though Negroes make up 13% of the city's population (v. only 3.4% of Kodak's 40,000 employees), many are unskilled workers who have arrived from the South in the past few years. In the face of that influx, Kodak has done its part to hold the unemployment rate at a remarkably low 1.7%; last year alone, the company hired 600 Negroes. But by entering into the Dec. 20 agreement, Kodak undeniably blundered-for which it has apologized publicly time and again...
...Randy Matson Day" in College Station, Texas, last week, and Texas A. & M.'s best-known student was a little embarrassed by all the fuss. "I haven't felt so much pressure since the Olympics," he said. Whereupon he stepped into the shotput ring and, on his first try, heaved the 16-lb. metal ball 71 ft. 5½ in. - breaking his own world record by a fantastic...
Because the feud is so bitter, most active CCA members will choose up sides next fall and throw their time and dollars to particular councillors regardless of the parent organizations position. Why all the fuss, then, over the CCA's formal stand...
...considerable extent, universities are beginning to deal with this situation: campuses from Yale to California have acquired staffs of practicing artists as well as art historians. Nowhere is the picture brighter than at Manhattan's Hunter College, a city-run school that has, with a minimum of fuss, assembled one of the nation's liveliest art faculties...