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Even in such a relatively benign matter as the release of eleven U.S. flyers shot down over China during the Korean War, John Foster Dulles first urged Hammarskjöld to intervene, then refused to allow their families to travel to Peking at Chou En-lai's behest. As a result the flyers' release was delayed eight months. Chou chose Hammarskjöld's birthday as the time to hand them over...
...given in to their demands at least in part, and education at the University would have suffered. If we consider the kind of changes likely to command support from vocal students, on the basis of causes popular at other universities, we see that their neglect of these possibilities is benign...
Such acquiescence is castigated by Psychologist Kenneth Clark, the only black member of New York State's Board of Regents, as "benign violation of the law-and I am not sure how benign it really is." Indeed, self-segregation does violate at least the spirit of federal laws, yet the policy of HEW's Office of Civil Rights is to take no action so long as a black dormitory or fraternity officially remains "open" to whites, even though no whites belong...
Many of the Republican losers ran lethargic campaigns, apparently expecting familiarity and the Nixon tide to get them through. There was some retroactive bitterness over the White House's benign neglect of Senate candidates through much of the campaign. Protested Colorado National Committeewoman Jo Anne Gray: "National media, money, everything was Nixon, Nixon, Nixon...
Dumont said that "heroin is a benign drug, it's much safer than penicillin. In terms of death, heroin is not as lethal as suicidal tendencies or alcoholism...