Word: ruckuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During last year's ruckus over the safety and distribution of the Salk polio vaccine, the man responsible for bringing order to the confused and emotional situation was Dr. Leonard Andrew Scheele. As Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, he was doctor to the U.S. people, and it was his job to insist on the priority of scientific precautions over political speed. This brought him into unhappy conflict with the then Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Oveta Gulp Hobby. A quiet career man for two decades, Scheele became increasingly aware that the hazards of public service...
...South's position was made clear in the course of a mild ruckus touched off by South Carolina's Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. In a letter to some 150 Southern politicos, Timmerman called attention to South Carolina's maneuver of recessing its state Democratic convention until after Chicago instead of adjourning. This procedure theoretically would allow the Southerners to walk out of a hostile national convention and reconvene as a third party. Timmerman also suggested darkly that Southern Democrats should caucus prior to Chicago...
Somewhere in the ruckus. Britain's Randolph Churchill picked a fight with his wealthy countrywoman, Lady Docker, and screamed aloud: "I didn't come here to meet vulgar people like the Kellys." A learned representative of the French Academy, Europe's high temple of culture, launched a formal complaint when Monaco's Prince refused to permit the reading of an ode especially written for the occasion by Academician Jean Cocteau, on the grounds that it was too effusive. Highballing away the nights and days in their hotel suites just as though they were in the good...
...Soviet's grand gesture nearly backfired earlier this year when Western art experts got their first close-up view of the paintings. Despite boastful Russian claims that the paintings had been carefully preserved and restored by Soviet experts, Art News Editor Alfred Frankfurter touched off an international art ruckus by noting that at least 30 of the masterpieces were cracked, blistered or awkwardly patched...
Speaking for 16 Dallas societies, banded together as the Dallas County Patriotic Council, Owsley demanded that the museum reimpose the ban it had temporarily clamped down on art by Communists or suspected Communists after a similar ruckus last year (TIME, May 2). But this time the museum held fast. It also got the backing of the Dallas Morning News ("The issue is not the allegiance or sympathies of the artists over a period of years, but actually one of censorship") and Dallas Merchant Stanley Marcus, who refused to withdraw as a local sponsor of the show...