Word: ruckus
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...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...
According to Linsley's calculations, the primary ray that caused all the ruckus must have had 100 billion billion electron-volts of energy-three billion times the power of man's biggest atom smashers. If the cosmic-ray invader consisted of only one proton, as Linsley believes, its fierce energy must have made it weigh 100 billion times as much as a normal earthly proton...
...Guard. All this was like rubbing salt in a wound, and the press responded by raising a mighty ruckus. Mark Watson, military reporter for the Baltimore Sun, was reminded of "the policy and performance of Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Paul Goebbels." Wrote Joe Alsop in a column careless of any strain it might put on his friendship with the President: "The caves of the policymakers still too strongly resemble mushroom cellars. The danger is airlessness, in other words, and this airlessness can be too easily fatal, unless the caves are regularly ventilated by the winds of national...
Finally, 24 hours before the allotted deadline, the grinning Russians appeared at Sandkrug Bridge in a red-painted civilian bus with a bilious, pea-green roof. As the bus passed through without incident, the ruckus subsided. Far from solution, however, was the chronic indecision among the Allies, who on a relatively minor issue took two weeks to:1) agree that there was a problem, 2) decide to do something about...