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Certainly, American attitudes toward death are complex, and the manner of dying is just a partial reason for these attitudes. Miss Mitford has chosen to disregard the problem, to deny the perceptiveness of the undertakers while she decries their sales pitch. Some readers may find her own singleminded emphasis on money just as distasteful as the embalming practices she describes. But because her appeal is essentially emotional--and Americans are always emotional about money--her book will have impact, and produce results...
...face of "sufficiently convincing" evidence of the leak's existence, the department decided that the only just solution would be to disregard completely grades achieved on the exam. Although marks will not count, the tests will be graded and critically discussed in section, Joheph Cooper, assistant professor of Government and head section man in the course, said yesterday...
Mary, Mary could hardly miss. Still holding forth in its third season on Broadway, Jean Kerr's wordly-wise comedy has been transferred to the screen almost 100% intact, and anyone who complains about its total disregard of cinema techniques should be taken out and dunked in a new wave. The best defense is just to relax and enjoy...
...nasty little war in Yemen, one year old this month, is dragging on in grand disregard for the peace-seeking efforts of the U.N. Neither Egypt nor Saudi Arabia has honored its pledge, which both made earlier this year under U.S. mediation pressure, to disengage simultaneously from Yemen. Although Nasser has sent home six shiploads of troops, he has rotated in fresh detach ments, and at least 20,000 Egyptian soldiers are still in Yemen propping up the republican regime of President Ab dullah Sallal. All the while, money and munitions from the monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan still...
...trial began). But it is hard to determine any motive for the Justice Department's behavior except hostility to the integration movement or a desire to appease segregationist politicians. In Albany and other segregationist cities the law has become a relative concept, and it is often enforced with appalling disregard for common decency, let alone justice...