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...Democrats have made the American farmer's mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage, Reed Benson, charged last night. They have appealed to his selfish interests to the detriment of economically sound policy, the son of the present Secretary of Agriculture said...
...adjustment to the growing number of talented students would be granting the special awards for achievement in college rather than for high school promise, redistributing them every year. Although this change is already under consideration, it is only likely to place even more emphasis on academic achievement to the detriment of other worthwhile activities...
...Neuberger wrote: "There even exists the danger that panicky politicians . . . more interested in their own ambitions than in the President's health, might try to have him propped up unwisely with drugs and other such aids so that he could fulfill speaking and TV commitments to the permanent detriment of his well-being-just to get by election day." Hearing of Neuberger's remarks, other Democrats blanched with dismay; Republicans rose in wrath, with Minority Leader William Knowland rumbling that he was "deeply shocked" by the accusation. Dick Neuberger's explanation: he was only trying...
...immortality to achieve, the academicians ponder the verities, polish their language and, each year, award a prize to some young Frenchwoman who, "born in comfort, but forced by Fortune to work, prefers a life of honest and honorable poverty to that offered women who choose wealth, to the detriment of their honor...
...Amendment. In addition he has very courageously put himself into a position of great danger form legal incrimination. His defenders realize that in placing his judgement above that of an investigating committee when refusing to testify about past acquaintances, the professor runs the risk of erring, even to the detriment of his nation. Yet they argue nonetheless that placing a faculty person under any absolute moral obligation or "duty" to inform fails to take sufficient account of individual circumstances as well as individual judgments of "the right...