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...York three small stockholders filed suit demanding that a temporary receiver be appointed for the company "to prevent it from becoming insolvent." Almost simultaneously, they filed another suit against Howard Hughes, asking an accounting of "his stewardship [and] all damages caused by his mismanagement, neglect and reckless disregard of his duties" when he was boss of the big moviemaker...
...rapidly rusting links with South America are an example of how even the staunchest of friendships can die of neglect. Ever since the Rio de Janiero pact of 1947, American foreign policy strategists have been too engrossed in Europe and Asia to bother with the continent beneath them. As a result, a half-dozen anti-American rulers have moved into the erstwhile Good Neighborhood, and an active hate-America campaign is under...
...Luther on, they sponsored popular education and the use of vernacular languages. Luther himself evolved a new theory of charity that prevented "a breakdown of the social order in the 16th century," when the medieval pattern of almsgiving for the good of the donor's soul fell into neglect. Luther told his followers that "the aim of charity is the independence of the individual; the helpless must be trained to help themselves...
...Department's most obvious scar of neglect is its lack of manpower. The Faculty Committee on Rules and Tenure has limited Public Speaking to one full-time instructor--Associate Professor Frederick Packard. Packard has three-fifths more teaching time to portion among assistants, but he can offer prospective aides neither advancement nor security of tenure. As a result, Packard has hardly trained a helper before the man leaves for a better job in some other college that takes speaking seriously...
...Freeman writes without grace and often loses his story in a wilderness of battle detail, he does bring out Washington's heroic stature. Simply by piling up grey mountains of fact, Freeman shows that those who snipe at Washington for not being a great thinker or military strategist neglect something more important: that he was a great leader...