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...decade ago when Actor William Holden mused aloud: "I really don't know why, but danger has always been an important thing-to see how far I could lean without falling, how fast I could drive without cracking up." This summer he found an all too tangible answer: his $11,000 Ferrari, whining along at a reported 110 m.p.h. on a limit-free Italian autostrada, crunched into a tiny Fiat, killing a Florentine businessman. Although the actor's driving record has been safe at any speed, an Italian magistrate ruled last week that there was sufficient evidence...
...minutes into his speech, Aiken remarked that South Vietnam could not do a very good job of defending itself, and Rendell objected aloud. Rendell, a Briton who has spent a few years in Vietnam, told the audience from his seat behind the lectern that South Vietnam has the second strongest army in Southeast Asia...
Dirksen scoffed at the compromise. Describing it as "a majestic piece of opportunism," he wondered aloud "what tortures those souls have gone through to come up with that!" There seemed to be no way, in fact, that the Administration could rewrite the provision to overcome his opposition. After a recent two-hour session during which Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach sought to find some language that would be acceptable, Dirksen finally told him: "Nick, it's just no dice. I see no out that doesn't violate principle...
Last week, in the hushed, unhurried atmosphere of the 14th floor executive suite of G.M.'s grey stone fortress in Detroit, Jim Roche cogitated aloud about the state of business. "If anything is happening to the economy now," he said, "it is perhaps a slight dip. It's obvious that a dip here and there is a very normal thing. I don't think it's going to be a serious drop...
...edifice of unreasonable, bewildering, and unfair rules and sanctions. Congressional apathy continues, but the whole rotten draft structure is finally beginning to heave and high under its own weight. Student groups are staging little Berkeleys: civil rights organizations are protesting; corporate recruiters are voicing perplexity; college deans are wondering aloud; some professors have even stopped grading. A consensus is forming that the draft must be reformed, both radically and soon...