Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become interested in the case. One official claimed that Louisiana law forbade Negroes to correspond with whites. This was later revised by the statement that prison rules limited access to any prisoner on Death Row to his immediate family and his legal and spiritual counselors. The incident caused an uproar, and more than 38,000 incensed Swedes and Norwegians signed and sent petitions to President Johnson and Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen...
...irony of the air-conditioner uproar is that, however unwanted the sound it makes on the outside, the hiss of air inside is just what the noise doctor ordered. Sound engineers refer to it as "white noise" or "acoustical perfume," and they use it widely, especially in offices, to blanket distracting sounds that spring out of silence into disconcerting acoustical relief. A too-silent Massachusetts Roman Catholic Church put in white noise to preserve the secrets of its confessionals...
Devaluation Dangers. Despite the uproar, sterling recovered in the wake of Wilson's announcement to a healthy $2.79 1/16. Whether it would stay healthy was the question that international bankers were asking. They noted that such reforms as cuts in tourist allowances and overseas spending would take months to have any effect. What worried them most was that the key feature-the wage, price and dividend freeze-was voluntary, and the trade unions seemed reluctant to cooperate...
Last week Britons were shocked by the murder of one pirate captain bold, while another was charged with the crime. Amid the uproar, it even seemed possible that Harold Wilson's government would retaliate by shutting down all the other pirate radios as well...
With campus morale shattered by the Free Speech uproar, the University of California at Berkeley one year ago ap peared to be a great institution careening toward chaos. Yet this spring, while sit-in protests over draft-deferment tests swept Chicago, Wisconsin, C.C.N.Y. and Stanford, Berkeley students kept their cool, and the campus moved hopefully toward creation of a cohesive community. What made the difference? The most convincing answer appears to be the effective peacemaking of Chancellor Roger W. Heyns, a former vice president at the University of Michigan who was specifically-and desperately-hired last July to calm Berkeley...