Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unidentified Watteau, got it for $30), who inherited the house of Wildenstein from his father Nathan in 1934, carried on the family tradition of spot cash for multimillion-dollar collections, blue-chip customers (from Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum to Stavros Niarchos) and controversy (he caused a national uproar in 1960 after he outbid the Louvre for a De La Tour, then exported it to the Met, making himself a profit of at least $500,000); of a heart attack; in Paris...
Parisians recall many bloody heads across the years, especially the nine people killed in the crush when police broke up a 1962 peace rally. But the latest uproar began in April, when Cinemactor Jean-Paul (Breathless) Belmondo dared to protest that a cop was neglecting an accident victim while quizzing witnesses; Belmondo was knocked flat. During May, four prisoners detained for trifling offenses hanged themselves in their cells. There was no evidence to prove that the police were at fault, but no one could convince suspicious Frenchmen that the deaths were not caused by third-degree tactics. Paris has also...
...another, American intellectuals are apt to complain about being lost. Nelson Algren is the lost American of his own story, but it cannot be that no one knows where he is; the uproar he creates is deafening...
...with profligacy, noting that in the past ten years Senators had restored $22 billion previously slashed by the House. Virginia's Democratic Senator Willis Robertson, no great spender himself, called the resolution "the most insulting document that one body has ever sent to another." As he recalls that uproar, Clarence Cannon's face still fractures itself in a smile. He insists that the Senate has become much more responsible because of his taunts. "Why," he chuckles, "the first bill we sent over there this year, they cut it and cut it. They never used to do that...
West Virginia's little-known Wheeling Steel Corp. is only the tenth largest steel producer in the U.S., but last week it was first in the hearts of the industry. One year to the day after U.S. Steel's price rise sparked a business-political uproar, Wheeling Chairman William A. Steele surprised everyone by risking the Kennedy Administration's wrath with an announcement of selected price increases averaging $6 a ton. Steele's timing seemed a deliberate test of President Kennedy's present mood, and steelmen happily hailed Wheeling's lead. Said one competitor...