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Hults: "It would seem more appropriate to educate the public in the advisability of obeying the speed limits rather than trying to sell them devices which would encourage them to disobey them." Retorts Radatron's General Manager William Waytena piously: "In many cities, radio stations broadcast where and when the police are using radar. Our device merely supplements this information and alerts the driver to be careful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gadgets: Burble & Squeak | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...management of Club Mount Auburn 47 last night entered the building for the first time since the abortive Sing Out for SANE Oct. 30, to test its right to disobey alleged informal police orders not to enter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Management of Club Mount Auburn Enters Building in Defiance of Order | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

...they say: 'It's wonderful, but we can't spend more than $100.'" In Paris, a salesgirl in a Rue Royale glove shop said: "Oh, les pauvres Américains I Eef zis 'appen to us, we would do avrysing een our power to disobey, even smuggling. But zee Americains are too weel deesciplined to do sings like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Les Pauvres Americains | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...because they did not place conscience above orders from Hitler. Soviet officers at Budapest were reportedly executed by the Red army when they did put conscience above orders and refused to shoot down Hungarian freedom fighters. In World War II, Charles de Gaulle's conscience drove him to disobey the orders of Marshal Pétain when he escaped to Britain and set up the Free French forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Orders & Honor | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

...Dallas last month. Canon law demands that within one month after it has been received, a pastoral letter must be read in each of the denomination's 7,500 parishes. But the "sheer mediocrity" of the "ecclesiastical jargon," protested Protestant Miller, made it necessary for him to disobey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Creeds: How Irrevocable? | 12/26/1960 | See Source »

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