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Unlike Caesar's wife, the university has not been free from fault or mistakes. The News has always been free to caution or criticize. Many of its editorial writers have not agreed with all of our professors, any more than our professors have agreed with all the editorials. Both have exercised the treasured freedom to speak out and differ, but there has always been a mutual respect and common kinship of purpose...
With two boats ahead now and the only possibility left of tying Navy by placing second, Marshal threw caution to the winds and tossed on the big blue and white spinnaker. After rapidly catching the Babson boat, he ordered a jibe. Although the boom rode up the mast in the high wind, four of the crew barely held it down
...tone of the new union was moderate. Speech after speech urged caution in dealings with the Communist bloc, and plans were made for a hookup with Europe's six-nation Common Market. As their next step, the conferees decided to seek some kind of affiliation with huge Nigeria and rubber-rich Liberia. If this came off, West Africa would have a powerful counterweight to the noisy, elbowing radicals of Ghana and Guinea...
...physical and political problems. Their only hope seems to lie in a messianic revalation. Witness a line from the 1961 budget summary that city manager John J. Curry submitted to the Council: "All have confidence that new and modern construction is on the way, but until it appears, extreme caution is necessary." This sort of argument tumbles like a house of cards in the face of a singular refutation--John Briston Sullivan...
...consulates abroad have done much to simplify visa applications. Only suspect applicants, e.g., Communists, those with police records or no financial resources, are forced to fill out the long visa application form. Sample warnings: a caution that anyone who has "engaged in prostitution or will engage in immoral sexual acts" or anyone who is "likely to become a public charge" will be excluded. Except for such cases, most applicants just give pertinent information (name, date and place of birth) to clerks who transcribe it on the short visa form. The whole process usually takes less than 20 minutes...