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...chemistry professor emeritus at Chicago's Jesuit Loyola University, and dissenting member of the three-man board that declared Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer a security risk in 1954; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Lancaster, Pa. The majority felt that Oppenheimer showed a "susceptibility to influence" and a "serious disregard" of U.S. security requirements that raised reasonable doubt, not of his loyalty, but of his judgment. Scientist Evans countered, in a two-page minority report, that the atomic scientist's judgment, while sometimes bad, was better than in 1947 when a Truman loyalty board cleared him, and "to damn...
...gloomily predicted that increasing minimum wages and raising tariffs on raw materials purchased outside the Common Market would cost Dutch manufacturers $84 million in the next five years. French authorities, plagued by a dangerously unfavorable balance of trade, gloomily decided that, for the time being, they would have to disregard the fundamental principle of the Common Market, and temporarily restored import quotas on about 2,000 items that France buys from her European trading partners...
Competition with courses remains the most serious obstacle to independent programs. As long as the College emphasizes grades, any portion of formal education which tries to disregard them will suffer unless it is exceptionally well-planned and intriguing or the student displays a remarkable degree of independence. "If you are in a system that includes grades, you commit harakiri if you try to do without them," comments Harold C. Martin, director of General Education...
...with all the politeness in the world the learned Portuguese judges could not disregard a bulky file, uncovered in Galvão's apartment, which contained a detailed blueprint for the overthrow of the government. In his own defense, Galvão pleaded that the carefully constructed plot was merely an outline for a play he had in mind...
...could only arise out of a ruthless disregard of ethics 'and morality by both labor and management. I've never met Beck, and I've seen him only once, but my reaction always has been colored by the way he first came to my attention. It was from a businessman who was so callous about the whole deal, who'd .lent his strength to Beck because Beck could deliver the goods...