Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers. News of a radar mistake and a bomber alert is reported, if at all, in a note on the sports page. When the ingenious Mr. Kahn writes a book listing death figures for the next war and urging us to build shelters, there is little public stir...
...with her mother-in-law, the Countess of Rosse in Ireland, Margaret and Hus band Antony Armstrong-Jones booked to go on an Irish commercial airliner, tourist class. Possible reason for their plebeian style: if they came winging in over Irish ground in a British military aircraft, it might stir up the wrong kind of feelings...
Eminently deserving revival, The Plough should have a great Irish one. The Phoenix Theater's production lacks more than Irishness; it is not dramatic or revealing or resonant enough. The play does stir sleepily all evening, though it takes scenes of brawling to bring it really to life, or the great final curtain to assert its piercing ironic force...
...Department-store sales have been edging up for several weeks, reached a new high last week for the year. But for four straight weeks they have been running slightly below 1959 levels. Merchants blame part of the lag on unseasonably warm weather, hope the coming of colder weather will stir the consumers...
...Antoine Gizenga. While Lumumba appealed to the Russians for planes and technicians, Gizenga asked the ambassador for arms and volunteers from China. Chen cautiously offered cash and advice instead, as his Peking colleagues have done in Guinea, Ghana and Morocco. For, though the Red Chinese might be prepared to stir up real strife later, their present limited goal in Africa seems to be quiet infiltration behind the scenes, to gain allies for Peking's struggle for world recognition...