Word: ruckus
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...Levittown, L.I., half a dozen Negro families have taken houses without any comparable ruckus...
...status-of-forces agreements, in spite of the ruckus over Specialist Third Class Girard in Japan, are working out amazingly well. Status-of-forces agreements have contributed in six years of steady growth toward easing the tensions between allies, and have added up to a remarkable good-sense show of international justice from which the U.S. and its allies alike have benefited. One Girard case provides an uproar in the U.S. and Japan, for example, but 5,544 other U.S.-Japanese cases that came up last year worked out smoothly. Over a longer term, fewer than half a dozen...
...Gallup poll was needed at the White House last week to announce a bitter bit of news: in the wake of the budget ruckus, Dwight Eisenhower's authority had ebbed low on Capitol Hill.* But among Ike's advisers unhappy knowledge drew divided reaction. Ignore it, said some. Counter it, suggested others, by delivering a frontal assault on the economy-harried Congress. Eventually Ike decided to move midway between suggestions, deliver a three-pronged plea: to the people by television, to the leaders of Congress in person, to a segment of his own disoriented party by telephone...
Immediate cause of the ruckus was a strident protest by a staff psychiatrist, Dr. Jordan Scher, against the institute's decision to drop (as of July 1) his project for a forceful, unorthodox treatment of schizophrenic patients. He is getting results, claims Psychiatrist Scher, by being stern with schizophrenics, making them work, and forcing them into social situations (usually with the aid of relatives). It was too soon to judge whether Scher's method had any value (similar techniques have previously been tried and found wanting). In any case, he violated all the rules of the psychiatric club...
...Chamber of Commerce wired a withdrawal of the invitation, and Dr. Powell, who at first insisted that he would attend, finally bowed out. In Toledo, Negro Civic Leader Ella Phillips Stewart heard about the ruckus and decided that she would not accept her invitation. In Chicago, Roosevelt University Sociology Professor St. Clair Drake also received an invitation, but the word from Richmond was that his invitation-as well as any others that had slipped through the racial screen-would be withdrawn...