Word: score
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bold Gamble. Though fewer than a score of black guerrillas were engaged in the battle, the slum telegraph swiftly rapped out reports, igniting a full-scale riot. Looters and arsonists rampaged through a six-square-mile area, as well as in nearby Hough, which suffered a five-day riot in 1966. Mayor Carl Stokes, who as the Negro candidate for the office last year inspired the slogan "Cool Cleveland for Carl," hoped that he might again stave off trouble. He was reluctantly forced to call on Ohio Governor James Rhodes for help. Within twelve hours, 2,700 National Guardsmen were...
Refusing to Answer. Last week's attack was a good indication of the growing strength of the movement to block the confirmation of Fortas and Homer Thornberry, Lyndon Johnson's nominee for Associate Justice. Though the hear ings ended after nine days, more than a score of Senators made it plain that they plan a filibuster when Congress returns after the conventions. Michigan Republican Robert Griffin, leader of the anti-Fortas bloc, claimed that he already had more than enough votes to keep a filibuster going indefinitely...
...eloquent defense of the necessity for intellectual freedom, the physicist is again contemptuous of Soviet leadership. The value of free speech, he says, was "clear to the philosophers of ancient Greece, and hardly anyone nowadays would have any doubts on that score. But after 50 years of complete domination over the minds of an entire nation, our leaders seem to fear even allusions to such a discussion. The crippling censorship of Soviet artistic and political literature has again been intensified. Dozens of brilliant writings cannot see the light...
Nudes in the Score. Con brio serves as the motto of Schneider's life as well as his music. Married and divorced three times, he is an Old World charmer who, as a friend puts it, has a different girl for every occasion. "The only important things," Schneider sighs, "are women and music." His exuberance sometimes leads him into a harsh candor about other musicians' performances, which he cheerfully calls "giving it to them over the head...
...negligible chances of survival. But can a doctor, in good conscience, pass over the man who is most severely ill and doomed soon to die, in favor of a younger man with more vitality, whose need is less urgent but who has a better chance of survival? On this score, said Cooley, "We did not establish definite criteria...