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Less speculative investors, however, have been less willing to risk capital in what appears to be an attractive money market. Along with the professional betters, they dismiss past scores and variations in emotional preparation as largely irrelevant...
Because he patiently took a lot of abuse from Adenauer, many Germans began calling him "Gummilowe" (rubber lion). There is a widespread sense of Autoritatsmudigkeit-weariness of authority-in Germany today, and Erhard fits that mood. Erhard is fasci nated by ideas and by people. Where Adenauer could loftily dismiss a dissenting aide, Erhard cannot resist the temptation to listen to all the arguments. "Ja, tell me more," he will grunt, and almost never flatly contradicts anyone...
When he opened the case, the presiding judge indicated that he would dismiss charges if no civil action, such as contention of false charges, was brought by the defendants. Francis and Buckholder refused the waiver, because, Francis said, this would "encourage policemen to continue false arrests...
Others feel that the church should not quickly dismiss anything that has the power to deepen faith. Dr. W. T. Stace, of Princeton, one of the nation's foremost students of mysticism, believes that LSD can change lives for the better. "The fact that the experience was induced by drugs has no bearing on its validity," he says. In an article on the drugs written with Leary for the journal Religious Education, Dr. Walter Houston Clark of Andover Newton Theological School argued that the structure of the drugs is similar to that of a family of chemicals...
Bosch wanted to dismiss Colonel Elias Wessin y Wessin, a vociferous antiCommunist, the brass decided that Bosch himself had to go. At a predawn meeting in the palace, the military chiefs arrested Bosch. They abolished the constitution, dissolved Congress, outlawed Communists and closed the schools. Out over the radio went a manifesto: "We have decided to intervene to put order to this chaos and to halt the deteriora tion to revolutionary Communism." Imbert then sent his police to round up all "subversives." By week's end some 500 people were in jail...