Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unprecedented decision that has the French racing industry in an angry uproar, Paris' Seventh Chamber of the Court of Appeals awarded $3,000 damages to Luca. Said the court: "The jockey must not, before arriving at the finish post, cease to urge his horse to fight for first, second or third place." Jockeys now fear that they may have to spend as much time in court as on the race track, fending off the suits of disgruntled bettors. Even race-track stodpers, who look for discarded ticket stubs, were heard to complain about the decision. If it holds...
Stirred Flurries. Hickel's case is the least baffling, for the outspoken Alaskan has been on thin ice since his renowned letter to Nixon last May was leaked to the press even before the President had seen it. With the nation's campuses in an anti-Administration uproar over the Cambodian invasion, Hickel wrote Nixon that he had failed to give the young a hearing, and was ignoring some of his Cabinet members, Hickel included, into the bargain. (Hickel took up pen only when he was denied a meeting with Nixon.) During the fall campaign, Hickel traveled more...
Although I do not concur in Dean von Stade's particular formulation of the issue of male-female ratio in Harvard College, I detect something rather disingenuous about the uproar the lib-minded female students have made in response to his views. I refuse to believe, as the outcry from the libs would have us believe, that they were unaware that such views were common to men of von Stade's generation, and even to men much younger. Their own fathers after all, hold such views, as did their granddaddies...
...real source of the uproar is, of course, that the libs had already invested the traditional attitudes on female roles with new meaning and connotations. Having thus politicized the old attitudes, von Stade's remarks struck the libs as, to put it mildly, out of order...
Alas: perhaps all the uproar over von Stade's views is a mere mask for the guilt felt by females in elite colleges who for the first time can see-for themselves of course-the light of emancipation from housekeeping and child rearing roles at the other end of the (male chauvinist) tunnel...