Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accepting Atrocities. Nixon may well have damped the popular outcry. Few of the pro-Calley demonstrations planned last week drew much of a turnout; in San Diego, for example, only 250 supporters-a mixed bag of John Birchers and antiwar protesters-turned out to rally and march for Calley. "The President sort of took the steam out of people," said Terry Repsher, a Houston high school junior. Dallas, however, bloomed with bumper stickers demanding: WHY CALLEY? A giant pro-Calley billboard blossomed in Bridgeport, Conn. But from the Timber Ridge School in Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb, 41 students wrote...
Another encouraging sign is a high level of enthusiasm and dedication, not exactly a trademark of past Harvard lacrosse teams. Turnout at practices has been good enough to permit regular full-field scrimmages. On the other hand, Harvard will miss the calm temperaments of John Ince and Bruce Regan, the senior leaders of last year's squad...
Schnabel's Duodecimet and Haydn's Symphonie Concertante in B-Flat Major formed the balance of the program, each quite well done. The Philharmonia has only one more concert this season, on May 2, and they certainly deserve a better turnout than Sunday's paltry few hundred...
...phoned in by viewers. Potentially the most significant development is Kádár's encouragement of nonparty candidates to run for office. So far, the response in local elections has been poor because Hungarians, not unreasonably, feel uneasy about running against party candidates. Nonetheless, a better turnout is expected in next month's parliamentary elections. Kádár is by no means prepared to sanction the birth of a political opposition, but he does want to create a broader base for consultation within the framework of Communist rule...
...turnout befitted the tariff. Surveying the crowd, Ring Announcer Johnny Addie declared that "everybody is here tonight." He was almost right. At ringside were Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stu Roosa and Edgar Mitchell, Senators Hubert Humphrey and John Tunney, Ed Sullivan, Andy Williams, Ethel Kennedy, Bullfighter El Cordobes, Frank Sinatra, Dick Cavett, Danny Kaye, Bill Cosby, David Frost, Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Burt Bacharach-to cite a few. Then there were the costumes, which ranged from brocaded tuxedos and sequined capes to tangerine jumpsuits and mink-trimmed robes. Salvador Dali had one look at the proceedings and pronounced them "surrealistic...