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Resounding Belle. She took the abuse with gallantry and grace. In fact, as she said, "I abhor Hitler and Hitlerism." On one occasion when Hitler's Ambassador, Joachim von Ribbentrop, greeted her with the Nazi salute, she snapped: "Stop that nonsense with me!" During World War II, she ran Cliveden as a 1,600-bed hospital for wounded Canadian soldiers, also assisted her husband in his duties as Lord Mayor of Plymouth, which was savagely bombed. "You can kill us," she challenged the Nazis, "but you can't scare...
Another controversial passage allows the Attorney General to file a suit for breach of this Title on behalf of the victim of discrimination. Southerners abhor such use of Federal power, while advocates of the Act claim many Negroes would be intimidated economically and physically if they sued on their own. The Title outlaws such intimidation, authorizing the Attorney General to seek an injunction against...
Finally, Goldwater is playing hard on the Cuba theme: "I was born on the Mexican border, and spoke Spanish almost before I spoke English. I know the Latin American people, and their concern with Cuba. I know that above all, they love courage and abhor cowardice. As of now, frankly, they consider us cowards: they cannot understand why a big country should let itself be pushed around by a little power like this...
...French abstain when they can from their ill-tasting tap water in favor of vin ordinaire, and abhor the ice water that Americans call for. Such Gallic hydrophobia does not apply, however, to bottled mineral water. In the course of a year, the French drink 1.2 billion bottles drawn from 3,000 springs, or 25 bottles for every man, woman and child. By far France's biggest producer of mineral water is Source Perrier, a $79 million firm that has grown so prosperous from its natural springs that it now owns seven mineral water companies, a soft drink company...
...Formal, deliberate exclusions of this sort would violate the most deeply held principles of the College. You have noted that even though a student organization has an open membership clause in its constitution, it may nonetheless in its elections practice discrimination and exclusions of a sort we profess to abhor...