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...picketers ran into sharp, vocal hostility in the attempt to stir up sympathy for their cause. Marching down Massachusetts Avenue towards the Square, they met with cries from Wigglesworth Hall of "Go back to Moscow...
...Supreme Court's power to determine whether the committee asked Wilkinson to testify because he possessed facts about communism in Atlanta, or simply because he has made known his bitter opposition to its existence. Wikinson was, after all, a stranger in the city who had come there to stir up opposition to the committee. On the face of it, it does not seem probable that he would know much about communists in Atlanta. Yet when Stewart says it is not the business of the Court to "speculate" about the motives of the committee, he ignores the very real possibility that...
...they might move back into the area. The University would have to have a care for neighborhood groupings, would have to ensure a finance plan to allow present residents to return and to accommodate students, and would undoubtedly have to carry on a publicity campaign to combat the political stir that always crops up in the face of radical change...
Virile Language. Across the English Channel, the French press, conquering an early disposition to water enthusiasm with Gallic doubt, has taken to Kennedy and his French-descended wife. "His virile language," said Roger Massip of Le Figaro, "is designed to stir up the energies of a great nation which is threatened by the excesses of her prosperity." Said the normally skeptical Le Monde: "There is every reason to believe that [Kennedy diplomacy] will result in spectacular developments in the near future...
...April, perhaps tightening expense-account allowances and chucking the $50 exemption on dividend income. But the Treasury will not be ready with any sweeping proposals for many months. After they are submitted. Mills will hold extensive committee hearings, aiming to create the climate of public opinion needed to stir Congress to action. With luck and massive help from the President, a new tax bill might have a chance in Congress next year...