Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given a fighting force composed of knights too fat for their armor, horses too old to stand up, and soldiers a draft board would stamp instant 4-F, Ulysses S. Grant himself could not stir up a convincing battle. All the more amazing, then, that a 58-year-old, 5-ft. 1-in. woman can. But then, Opera Director Margherita Wallmann does not map her strategy in the thick of enemy attack but to the friendly strains of Prokofiev and Verdi, Puccini and Mozart...
Beyond Franquemont, the Harvard squad will probably not create much of a stir. Captain Ben Brooks at 191 and Howie Durfee at 137 are good wrestlers for the Ivy League, but they have little chance to upset the machines from powers like Lehigh, Penn State, and Syracuse. Howie Henjyoji at 123, Tom Gilmore at 130, and Tack Chace at heavy-weight all have had disappointing seasons, despite glimmers of brilliance...
...Civil Rights was set up in 1957 to investigate civil rights abuses, not until this month did it get around to hearings in Mississippi. For several years, Robert Kennedy, as Attorney General, argued successfully that the commission should stay out of the state; it would, he said, only stir up more trouble where there was already plenty...
With Annie's ingenious aid, Daddy will soon break out of stir-but the ca per went on without the endorsement of the Hartford, Conn., Courant. Offended by the comic strip's pejorative attitude toward mental institutions and mental health, Courant Publisher John R. Reitemeyer suspended Annie for two weeks-"until she stopped preaching." After all, said Reitemeyer, nothing like that could happen in Connecticut, where "you just can't be railroaded" into a mental institution. Reitemeyer was also concerned about the effect on readers: "It would disturb people with relations in mental institutions, and it might...
...life seems to stir...