Word: ruckus
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...Atlantic City one day last week, Campaigner Lyndon Johnson gazed happily into the faces of 3,500 shouting, stomping members of the United Steelworkers Union who had just endorsed him unanimously. When the ruckus subsided, Lyndon took off on his familiar specialty: a recital of his Administration's accomplishments and of better things to come...
...police lieutenant, off duty and in civilian clothes, heard the ruckus, flashed his badge, ordered the youngsters to quiet down. He was Thomas Gilligan, 36, a 6-ft., 200-lb. veteran of 16 years on the force and the holder of 19 citations, including several awards for disarming dangerous suspects. According to the police report, the Powell boy went after Gilligan with a knife. Gilligan ordered him to stop, but Powell kept coming. Then, "in defense of himself," Gilligan fired his revolver three times. The third shot went wild-but the first two killed...
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...