Word: ruckus
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Despite all the ruckus over questionable loans and influence-peddling, the Reconstruction Finance Corp. managed to accomplish a few things last year. RFC Administrator Stuart Symington, who took over the agency when it smelled the worst last May, reported that in fiscal 1951 (ending last June 30), RFC paid more than $95 million to its sole stockholder, the U.S. Treasury...
Nina (adapted by Samuel Taylor from a play by Andre Roussin) created something of a ruckus before reaching Broadway. Gloria Swanson, who plays the title role, snarled publicly at Gregory Ratoff's direction, sneered at the play and threatened to quit. On Broadway the play itself should cause much less stir. It can best be described as very French in plot, and not nearly French enough in manner...
...unless you are shot at. It would have been better if the Eighth Army commander had called U.N. newsmen in beforehand, and told them what he was doing instead of letting them draw their own conclusions from what they saw and heard at the front. The ensuing high-level ruckus, which reverberated all the way to Washington and Key West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not trouble the men in the front lines. Using a bayonet to dig chunks of ham from a ration can, one G.I. sighed happily: "Man, this is pure heaven...
...transit passenger on [a] Pan American flight ... I was searched in Ciudad Trujillo airport and my copy of TIME, July 30, taken away from me forcibly. I insisted on its return, calling the U.S. Embassy for help, and thus missed my plane to Curaçao. After the ruckus was over, the magazine was returned...
Healthy or Destructive? As far as the N.E.A. could tell from observing them, such organizations capitalize on any local school dispute, move in to push their doctrines during the ruckus, and try to spread the impression that the whole school system is riddled with Reds. "Up to last year," said Richard Kennan to the N.E.A. last week, "we felt it best to ignore their attacks. Now, we have clear evidence of coalition in their efforts . . . We had to come out slugging." The N.E.A.'s recommendation to the public: learn the difference between healthy criticism and destructive criticism, then come...