Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questionable" technique. But most track officials agree with Coach Winter that Sprinter Johnson's starts are perfectly proper. "There's nothing remotely illegal about Dennis' start." says Winter. "The only sin he's committed is to run 9.3." Johnson himself is unconcerned by the ruckus. "I've never had any complaint, not even a black look," he says, "from any of the guys I've raced against. All I get from them are congratulations...
...themselves. These sensations have made La Dolce Vita, in one season, one of the most profitable pictures ever produced (world gross to date: $20 million). Released now in the U.S. for ten-a-week, reserved-seat showings at special prices ($1.50-$3.50), the film will undoubtedly raise another ruckus and bank another fortune. Advance sales are crowding...
...blames Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bill Fulbright for prematurely leaking the ambassadorial appointments lists to the New York Times. Fulbright was an early Kennedy choice for Secretary of State before he was shot down as a segregationist. One result of the leak was to stir up a newspaper ruckus over controversial appointments before approval had been received from the foreign ministries. Principal victim: the Kennedy family's close Palm Beach friend. ex-Cuban Ambassador Earl Smith, who was politely blackballed by the Swiss government (TIME, March...
Four Lords. The fight over Odhams raised a huge ruckus-to the point where Prime Minister Harold Macmillan finally stepped in and ordered the appointment of a Royal Commission to investigate the entire British press situation. It seemed high time. The take-over of Odhams by either King or Thomson would accelerate a postwar trend toward merger and monopoly, sped by rising labor and production costs and serious advertising losses to television, that has placed control of more than half Britain's newspaper circulation in the hands of four press lords. Besides King and Thomson, the giants...
Despite the critics, the doubters, and everyone's legitimate forebodings, Hammarskjold continued to push ahead from one limited, carefully chosen diplomatic objective to the next. At week's end, without ruckus, members of his Swedish bodyguard symbolically took over from the Belgians the guard duty at Elisabethville airfield, where they first put down. Belgian commanders in Katanga agreed to start pulling their 7,000 troops back to a single base as more U.N. forces flew in this week. The Congo may remain just one jump ahead of chaos for some time to come, but Dag Hammarskjold had established...