Word: disregard
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Every time that money-saving Defense Secretary Louis Johnson bragged that he had cut only fat, not muscle, he had to disregard the accusing stares of Marine aviators. In his new budget he had ordered a halving of the Marine Corps' precision-trained aviation forces, cutting them from 23 to twelve squadrons. Last week Louis Johnson conceded that in doing so he had touched a nerve-and also some muscle. He promised the Marines that they would now get 16 squadrons-with three extra planes per squadron. The Navy would save the needed $2,000,000 by closing down...
...three decades of construction service in the Mississippi Valley needs no defense. its record speaks for itself. We can even overlook the misguided enthusiasms of youth--but we are concerned, as we feel you must be, with what the reflection upon your university must be from the callow disregard of truth evidenced in your editorial. We can't help wondering if old John Harvard and the long line of distinguished searchers for truth who have taught there, rest easily in their graves. Lachlan Macleay, President, Mississippi Valley Association...
...realized that the combination of ideas which made me what I was was wrong; that every one was wrong and that there were certain standards of moral behavior that are in you and which you cannot disregard...
...might even consider leaving a school with the prestige and rank of Harvard to coach at Connecticut ought to drive home the unpleasant fact that we have no athletic policy as any level in Cambridge. There is no need for Harvard to go professional in its athletics; but to disregard completely the forces which are acting on intercollegiate athletics is to be guilty of self-inflicted blindness...
...Corporation. That austere body would do well to act quickly on it, for it is our opinion that lack of policy direction more than anything else moved Valpey to accept Connecticut's offer. One cannot censure any man for leaving a college which has exhibited such deeprooted and persistent disregard for its athletic program...