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...News. Its claims were ridiculed by the small group around Constantine in the north. In Kavalla, Queen Anne-Marie and Queen Mother Frederika kissed the King goodbye and waved him off as he climbed aboard a helicopter for a short flight to the town of Alexandropolis to stir up more support. He returned in midafternoon and took off almost immediately for Salonica, where handbills proclaiming his coup had been dropped from air force planes. While he was in the air, he received the news that Salonica was under junta control. As he turned back to Kavalla, he faced a shattering...
Alcoa appeals for people with imagination, new ideas. A Western Electric ad tells undergraduates; "We replace shiboleths at a terrific pace!" and issues a welcome to young men who will "create a stir... upset an old applecart...
...Edelman, the mere fact that it bears Bobby Kennedy's name is bound to sell copies during the coming year. According to Bobby's aides, the book's release was actually timed to achieve the least-not the greatest-political impact. Had Bobby really wanted to stir up controversy, they say, he would have sprung it on the eve of next summer's nominating conventions...
Westin had his stir even before the first program went on the air, chiefly be cause PBL had not yet resolved its most fundamental internal problem: point of view. If PBL hopes to provide an alternative to much of the pap that fills the commercial channels, it will have to be provocative. But the concern of some of PBL's advisers was that PBL's programming might confuse sensationalism, or at least irresponsibility, with healthy iconoclasm...
...chain-gang picture has been in stir for years. Now it has turned up again, paroled as Cool Hand Luke, a close study of conditions in a Southern prison. Like its most celebrated predecessor, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Luke is the story of a simple man who falls afoul of the law and mechanically becomes destroyed by a so-called house of correction...