Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrived in the U.S. But, in soldierly fashion, he drafted a reserve speech for any eventuality. President Johnson was in Germany when the general gave his talk at the A.P. luncheon, but everybody assumed he had read it in advance. He had not. But, especially in view of the uproar, he did have a look at the congressional speech. With his aides, Johnson watched it on television at the White House...
Center of the uproar was a liberal theology professor. Father Charles E. Curran, 33. In an interview published by the N.C.R. last September, Curran was depicted as forecasting that Catholicism's dictation of moral doctrine is doomed, that it will eventually be replaced by a form of ethics based largely on "the experience of Christian people." Contending that current doctrine too often accentuates the negative, the young priest was quoted as saying: "Even the Boy Scout oath sounds more positive than the Ten Commandments." In a subsequent book, Christian Morality Today, he flatly insisted that "I have added...
...Scandal." By last week the uproar had boiled into a potential threat to Premier Levi Eshkol's coalition government. As the result of an Orthodox campaign abroad, Eshkol has been inundated with protests from Jews in 21 countries. At home, police guarded the domiciles of some pathologists who had received threats, and scores of sick were refusing to enter hospitals for fear of dissection if they died...
...Best Way. Despite all such uproar, there is little doubt that Lee's Samsung Group of 20 companies, with $55 million in annual sales, has helped South Korea to become an economically viable nation. The 20,000 spindles and 150 looms of Lee's Cheil Wool Textile Industrial Co. Ltd. have not only halved the price of worsted goods for Koreans but have also helped the trade balance by sales to U.S. clothing manufacturers. Lee's sugar refinery at Pusan, started in 1953, provided the nation with a psychological lift because it was built at a time...
...Bendiner also describes the struggle to undermine the American way of life by slipping working-class propaganda into WPA art projects. "Swarthmore College felt obliged to close up a room in which no fewer than six clenched fists were detected in a WPA mural," Bendiner recalls. "After a mild uproar the room was reopened with three of the fists removed-a fair compromise for the time...