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...only a business matter that the present ruckus raised by the University of Pennsylvania can be seen. Football has already established equilibrium prices in the labor market, and has even developed a very primitive basing-point program to spread resources around the various sections of the country...
...enjoyment, parrying questions. He was reminded of his announcement weeks ago that his mind was made up about whether he would run or not. Grinning widely, he said that was still good. At one point, he sarcastically referred to MacArthur as the great General from the Far East; the ruckus over the general had not affected his plans at all, he added. How about talk of Eisenhower getting the Democratic nomination? Something like that, he noted, was going...
What Madrileños really wanted for their money was not bulls, but beef. The ruckus at the ring, in defiance of Franco's rule, was another symptom of Spain's rising anger with the Franco administration. Its chief causes: high prices, black marketeers and official corruption. The strike wave began in Barcelona (TIME, March 19) and Pamplona (TIME, May 21). Last week Madrid followed with a mass demonstration, its first since the civil war. Chain letters and clandestine pamphlets touched off 300,000 to 400,000 workers on a buyers' strike. They stayed away from buses...
Frankly delighted with all the ruckus, Adler hopefully suggests that the violence of the reaction is just a repetition of the shock and bewilderment which Darwin himself caused a hundred years ago. Says Adler: "The reversal suggests that in our universities today scientific hypotheses have the status of religious dogmas...
...fosters antiSemitism, can be seen at last by U.S. moviegoers for what it is: a brilliant, fascinating movie, no less a classic than the Charles Dickens novel which it brings to life. Indeed, in mirroring Dickens and his illustrator, Cruikshank, the picture is faithful to a fault-hence the ruckus. Its faithfully repulsive portrait of Fagin offended some Jewish groups, who protested that the film would drum up anti-Semitism and succeeded in blocking its U.S. release (TIME...