Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uproar over Sayre recalls a stern warning from the American Council on Education to schools of all sizes: "Pious statements about the importance of teaching will be viewed increasingly with a cynical and jaundiced eye by faculty members who know the facts of life...
...life by magic. In New Delhi, a Socialist deputy was hooted down in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) by angry Congress Party members for asking: "Is it democratic for an ailing Prime Minister with a shaky, inaudible voice and trembling feet to reply to questions?" Through the uproar, a waxen, drowsy figure sat hunched over on the front row of the horseshoe-shaped chamber; about the only thing reminiscent of the dynamic Nehru of old was the red rose in his white tunic...
Though Buhlie's exploit caused something of an uproar at Ford, the pictures certainly proved that the Mustang, which goes into mass production this week at Ford's River Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn, is indeed handsome. It has a rectangular, Ferrari-like front grille and a low, racy silhouette, but its most attractive feature is probably its price-less than $2,500. At any rate, Buhlie was not letting the matter disrupt his own plans. A few days after he unmasked the Mustang, he and Barbara Monroe Posselius, 18, were married in Grosse Pointe. The happy couple...
Sweden, which generally plays it lightly, last week was in an uproar about sex. The cause was a petition of protest to King Gustav VI Adolf signed by 140 eminent Swedish physicians, including the King's own doctor. Their plea to the monarch and to the government: take swift steps to stop sexual laxity, which "is a menace to the vitality and health of the nation...
...Loud Uproar. In the battle over the tax bill, 39 Senators tried in vain to keep stock option profits from being treated as capital gains, pointed out that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1956 that they should be regarded as salary supplements (the Court left it up to Congress to decide whether to tax them as such). Some stockholders have also complained that companies that set aside shares for option dilute their stockholders' equity. In the press and in Congress an uproar followed Chrysler's report in December that 16 of its high executives last year picked...