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...published reports that he still favored that proposition were true. To Fulton's astonishment, Goldwater wrote back, affirming that he was "quite serious in my opinion that TVA should be sold." Tennessee Republicans, who have high hopes of carrying their state for Goldwater next year, blanched in dismay. Wailed one: "TVA ranks right behind God, mother and country down here, and Barry knows that damned well; yet he still goes around shooting from...
...have been following the recent controversy over parietal hours with much interest, especially hoping--as I still hope--that it would produce among undergraduates a concerted demand that there be no restrictions upon the hours during which they can have women in their rooms. Instead, to my dismay, the debate seems to have settled on the question of whether the status quo should be maintained or whether it should be cut back a notch...
...view with increasing dismay the recent series of irresponsible actions culminating in yesterday's deplorable events. This is neither the time nor the place to analyze the consequences it will have for the community, but we will gladly go on record in uncompromising protest...
...tragedy. Oh, the dismay. Oh, the blood. Oh, the anguish. When the statisticians came to put the cold figures on paper, they were as follows: as a result of one bomb-66,000 killed, 69,000 injured, 62,000 structures destroyed. That was the result of one bomb, made by man in the hope of stopping that war. Little did he realize what this thermonuclear weapon would do, and the anguish that would be brought into the hearts of men, women and children...
...ways that South Africa's hapless blacks and coloreds have to express their dismay at apartheid is to boo vigorously the all-white home teams at international sports contests. In 1955 the unpatriotic favoritism of nonwhites at a rugby game with Great Britain at Bloemfontein brought about a racial slugfest that resulted in a ten-year ban on black and colored spectators in that city; five years ago, a similar clash forced officials to halt a South Africa-Britain soccer match in Johannesburg's Rand Stadium...