Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where once they had only to pass a plate among Sunday attenders, churches nowadays raise money in ways that range from bingo to bonds. Fund raising brings up questions of taste, discretion, prudence and donor psychology that stir heated debates across the land. TIME correspondents, sampling opinion among churchgoers and ministers last week, found that the "crasser" gimmicks of fund raising are giving way, but only slowly, to various forms of direct donation...
...Lima, Savoy's find created the greatest stir among archaeologists since the discovery of Machu Picchu. "Although we have yet to explore the ruins carefully," said Dr. Luis E. Valcarcel, director of the National Museum of History, "I am almost certain this is Vilcabamba." Peru's President Fernando Belaunde Terry, himself an ardent amateur archaeologist, chatted with Savoy about possible government help for a full-scale return expedition...
What bothers Britain most is Nasser's effort to stir up the tribes of the South Arabia Federation. Britain's claim to have exterminated South Arabia's chief rebels, colorfully called the Red Wolves of Radfan, was premature, to say the least. Since June, the Royal Air Force has flown 1,500 sorties against rebel tribesmen-devastating many of their villages as thoroughly as the Egyptians had done in Yemen. As much as anything, the British are challenging the claim of hegemony that Nasser hopes to carry to the conference table at the Arab summit meeting next...
...time to pick up a change of socks before hustling off to Chicago for another trial. When that one ended last week, after 90 days and 42,000 pages of testimony, Hoffa was nailed again on four counts of fraud and conspiracy. He faces up to 20 years in stir and $13,000 in fines when he is sentenced in the next few weeks...
...Beware of raising armies," Tsiranana warned, "for they can overthrow us. Beware of visiting African delegations that come to enjoy your hospitality and praise you to your face, but stir up insurrection behind your back." To the nervous titters of such practitioners of insurrection as Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, he took a cut at that African holy of holies, nonalignment. "We all say we are neutral, but we all favor anybody who helps us," Tsiranana said. "If you ask me the truth, I'll say mais oui, I am allied...