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Whence this caution, moderation and restraint? Thurgood's mother, Norma Arica, has been for 28 years a Baltimore schoolteacher and numbers six other schoolteachers among her own and her husbands close relatives. As a teacher, she was among the aristocrats of Negro Baltimore, and her feeling about white-Negro relationships is balanced and moderated by her sense of service and leadership among her own people...
...sincere or "sincere"-but it is certainly the reverse of the old easy, open cynicism. There have been no grave city political scandals involving De Sapio's men, and until there are, fairness requires the assumption that things are better in City Hall-although experience whispers a caution against a conclusion that graft has stopped. As for municipal services, New York is still far behind many other cities, but its filthy, potholed streets and clumsy police may be blamed as much on an apathetic citizenry as on Tammany Hall...
Another sharp word of caution to dealers came from their own National Automobile Dealers Association. ''To sign a contract which results in a buyer owing more than his car is worth-at any time during the terms of the contract-is business suicide," said NADA's newsletter to members. "The minute a customer finds that his car is bringing less on the open market than his outstanding balance, the stage is set for another repossession.'' Moreover, said NADA, terms of three years or five years keep customers out of the market too long...
...Chief John Fischer in the August issue of Harper's magazine delivered a stinging treatise on an explosive subject: American womanhood. His thesis: U.S. wives have made U.S. husbands their slaves, and are molding them to feminine will. Wrote Fischer, still holding lightly to his male's caution: "This undaunted approach may, perhaps, have something to do with the divorce rate, axe murders, and the number of morose characters nursing a shot glass late at night in men's bars...
Warming to his subject, Jack Fischer tossed caution overboard: "Never before in history has any nation devoted so large a share of its brains and resources to the sole purpose of keeping its women greased, deodorized, corseted, enshrined in chrome convertibles, curled, slenderized, rejuvenated, and relieved of all physical labor...