Word: upset
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Since the 1964 Free Speech riots at Berkeley, student protests have upset life at dozens of campuses across the nation. Yet one eminent educator firmly believes that the California protest signified not so much a wave of the future as the beginning of an end. He should know; he is Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California...
...Thanks for the cake. I appreciated the clippings, although of course Stanford's score [losing to Southern California 21-7] upset me. Oh well, maybe next year...
...without, as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has noted, adding one whit to the security of either side. Thompson's task is to convince the Russians, who have an almost paranoiac regard for defense, that they have nothing to gain-and billions to lose-by attempting to upset the balance with an ABM fence...
Wiesenthal himself is not upset by the short prison terms that his "clients" receive. He is more concerned that the world-particularly the postwar generation of Jews and Germans who find Hitler's genocide hard to believe-realize that there were, and still are, SS killers at large. He believes that young Germans, wary of the sentimentality in the Anne Frank story, were unconvinced that the entire tragedy really happened until he located Karl Silberbauer, the SS sergeant who arrested Anne Frank, and identified him as an inspector in the Viennese police department. Silberbauer readily admitted his role. Asked...
Greg Buckingham of U.S.C. pulled the biggest upset of the swimming season as he defeated Yale's Olympic Gold Medalist, Don Schollander in the 200-yard freestyle by six inches in the NCAA Swimming Championships at East Lansing, Michigan. Buckingham, a lanky junior, also won the 500 yard freestyle Thursday and will try to add a third win in the 1650 yard freestyle today...