Word: ruckuses
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...FIVETH--RUCKUS tries fro second win since leaving Belmont...
...tortured by the colonels, those thousands locked up in concentration camps! Re-si-sten-za!") that crowds stoned the Greek consulate and battled police. Next she turned up in Turin, where extreme left-wingers used the occasion to pelt police with paving stones, overturn cars and generally raise a ruckus. In Athens the government shrugged off her campaign. "She is just a has-been...
...saddest thing about the ruckus raised by Tommie Smith and John Carlos was that it dulled the lustre of a superlative track and field meet in which the U.S. once again demonstrated that it is the world's best. The Star-Spangled Banner was played so often that it began to sound like The Stars and Stripes Forever...
Keefe Brasselle does impersonations. He has impersonated a song-and-dance man in the movies (The Eddie Cantor Story), a variety-show M.C. on television (briefly), and a TV producer (also briefly). This last imitation precipitated a ruckus that began at CBS four years ago. Brasselle had sold three programs, sight unseen, to his pal, CBS-TV President James (''The Smiling Cobra") Aubrey. The FCC and Aubrey's CBS bosses thought that this was a little strange, especially since the shows were dogs (The Reporter, The Baileys of Balboa, The Car a Williams Show). In addition...
...issue in the early-morning hours when practically nobody would be watching TV. But the dissidents raised a tremendous ruckus. "Let's go home, let's go home!" they roared. Convention Chairman Carl Albert seemed at a loss. Finally, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley drew a finger across his throat and Albert got the message. He cut the fuss off by adjourning the meeting...