Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry Cowell: Piano Music (Folkways). The dean of the enfants terribles of U.S. music plays and talks about the pieces that made such a ruckus in the 1920s. His 20 piano pieces (including Tides of Manaunaun and Trumpet of Angus Og) are full of rumbling dissonant tone clusters, reinforced by piano strings rubbed, strummed and plucked. The pieces sound prophetic now, and not nearly so wild...
...special aptitude for trouble. In recent months, it created an international furor by its attempt to block scheduled transatlantic fare increases (only to compromise later), enraged both U.S. regional carriers and the British by refusing to let the U.S. carriers buy British short-range jets, and kicked up a ruckus in the airline industry with its highhanded advice to Pan American and W. R. Grace to sell Panagra to Braniff. "I'm doing the job the best way I know how," says Chairman Boyd, "and I expect the staff and members to perform in the same...
...fifth U.S. man-in-space flight, a superb six-orbit job by Wally Schirra, there were reports that last week's flight would be flown by Alan Shepard. Schirra, a close friend of Cooper's, put an end to that: he threatened to raise a public ruckus if Cooper were bypassed...
...biggest international ruckus of the jet age last week found the U.S. standing almost alone against nearly a score of foreign airlines. The dispute centered on fares on the heavily traveled North Atlantic run, where Pan American and TWA are engaged in hot competition with no fewer than 16 foreign airlines. The foreign airlines-most of them prestigiously losing money for the governments that run them-want to make changes that will, in effect, raise fares on the North Atlantic run 5%. The U.S. is holding out against the fare hike-and would, in fact, like to see fares...
...reason for the ruckus is the donor: Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, 84, a crusty, rasp-voiced publisher from Santa Ana. Calif., who plans to use Rampart College to promote the same "libertarian" philosophy with which he force feeds the 252,712 buyers of his five-state chain of Freedom Newspapers.* Hoiles's foes say he is to the right of Herod; he is, they say, an anarchist who carries laissez-faire economics to its illogical extreme...