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Tomorrow's Consequence. Trembling with anger, dapper Antoine Pinay climbed back to the Assembly rostrum. "Twice I have warned the Assembly of the consequences of a violation of the Charter. An assault of passion and demagogy has led the Assembly to disregard the recommendations of its General Committee . . . My government refuses to accept any intervention of the U.N. . . . My government will consider as null and void any recommendation which the Assembly might make in this connection...
Felix Krull is a man of talent and a man of desire. He uses the first to gain the second with a total disregard for social or ethical mores. He achieves his ends with a remarkable facility and lack of effort...
...than Der Alte might have been pressured into it. But Adenauer's loyalty to the Western alliance is so crystal-clear that the Russians did not explicitly ask him to budge. Nor could any successor to Adenauer, less loyal, inherently, to the concept of Western unity, afford to disregard the strength that West Germany derives from the West. It is perhaps this infusion that enabled West Germany last week to negotiate with the Russians as between equals...
...intense competition for business that the interest rate on some ten-year loans has been driven down (from about 3¼% to 3%) at a time of rising interest rates. Moreover, many who talk about mergers as though they were the exclusive and sinister technique of the financial titans disregard the fact that most of the mergers have been between small banks. By joining forces, they can hold their own and even gain against big-city institutions. For example, the First National Bank of Merrick, L.I. was a puny $11 million institution when it began the first of a series...
...Robert Ten Broeck Stevens (or his Defense Department superiors), said the report, should be "criticized for the delay of almost one year before the facts concerning the Peress case were publicly released." It added that former Army Counselor John Adams showed "disrespect for this subcommittee" when he chose to disregard a request from Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy that Peress' discharge be held up. Then the subcommittee listed 48 instances of snarled red tape: e.g., "the failure of Major Stambaugh, G2, First Army, upon receipt of Peress' DD Form 398 (in which Peress refused to list organizations...