Word: teapots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strongest denunciation was voiced by Senator Bulger, who accused newsmen of making a "tempest in a teapot." They seek martyrdom in this "tempest," he said, in order to profit from the campus lecture circuit. Jack Kelly of WBZ news answered the attack by stating, "I have no desire to visit any campus. I spent four years on one; that was fine." If sources do continue to dry up, Kelly may find the lecture circuit is his only recourse...
...room about 15 by 15 ft., furnished with two desks and a wooden plank bed with a boarded-up window. There he was to spend the first 36 days in solitary confinement. He was immediately issued personal supplies-a cup, toothpaste, tooth brush, shirts, trousers, blankets, a teapot. The food was opulent enough by P.O.W. standards-sweet milk and half a loaf of bread in the morning, thick potato or cabbage soup for lunch, along with soybean cakes, or fish cakes, and sometimes a ration of pork. Later in the day a third meal was served...
Tempest in a Teapot...
...things in the main, are responsible for the tempest in the teapot. First is their well known political views. But "concluding appointments" are given daily to men in all fields, when crowded departments hold out no chances for them to rise to professorial rank. There is no reflection on the abilities of Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy. The Economics Department is unique in that the great percentage of its professorial chairs are held by comparatively young men, and, as professorships are permanent appointments, no future is held out for the large number of instructors now rising in the field...
SUNDAY: The Caine Mutiny. Despite the teapot typhoons. Edward Dmytryk's 1954 sea drama is a powerful film with a devastating court martial climax. Humphrey, CH. 7. Noon. Color. 2 hrs. The Day the Earth Steed Still. Michael Rennie descends from an allen space rover to demand that Earth abandon nuclear testing in one of the early Sci.Fi greats. CH. 56. Noon...