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Beards & Banns. To keep morale flying high in that way of life, Pan Am operates its "airline within an airline" with reckoned informality and a tolerant disregard for some rules that bind most other air crews. The 166 flight crewmen, some of whom have flown the Berlin run for more than a decade, have a certain derring-do, and Pan Am even allows them to cultivate combat-veteran beards. The 109 German stew ardesses are permitted to fly after they marry. Indeed, many are married to their own pilots...
...also unnecessary. In a divided Republican party, Dirksen could have rested comfortably on the other side. By supporting a candidate who must rely heavily on placating the South, Dirksen is potentially threatening the very bill he helped to pass, is acting with a cynical disregard for an issue which deeply troubles his party and as little as two weeks ago seemed deeply to trouble...
...nearby Groton. Conn., Johnson was the Great Peace Seeker, warning against the rash use of military might. In an obvious crack at his probable November opponent, Barry Goldwater, Johnson said: "Those who would answer every problem with nuclear weapons display not bravery but bravado, not wisdom but a wanton disregard for the survival of the world and the future of the race...
...University's refusal to request exemptions for students on leave displays a surprising disregard for the needs of its undergraduates. Harvard has long admitted that, for many students, a year's leave of absence constitutes an essential part of their college experience. Officials often recommend a leave to students who feel uncertain about their studies and their future. But Harvard's failure to protect their students taking leaves of absence can only mean fewer and fewer undergraduates will risk a year away...
...Stalin had as much right as Khrushchev to claim Lenin's heritage, perhaps more. Although he added his personal despotic flourishes, Stalin had learned about terror, about dictatorship, about the total disregard of human life or ordinary human decency, from his master Lenin. In one important respect, Stalin did greatly enlarge upon a force present in Lenin's life only embryonically-Russian nationalism...