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...imprisonment of Veteran Davis Knight in Mississippi for intermarriage, following a revengeful relative's disclosure that Knight's great-grandmother was a Negro [TIME, Dec. 27], is a most flagrant violation of democratic spirit. It is a beautiful story for Russian distribution in Europe and Asia...
...Council must get rid of the idea that it can suppress information whenever it feels like it. The Council has used the same technique in the past, with equal lack of justification if not with equally flagrant results. Only very rarely does the Council deal with a subject about which information "will be detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole.' And only then is it justifiable for the Council to close its meetings...
Sometimes, a trainer will imply that this isn't the day: "This horse is not up to a hard race. If he gets tired, don't punish him." Except in flagrant cases, nobody can tell by watching a race whether a jockey is trying or not. Like pro wrestlers, they can put on a great show ? lots of whip-waving and scuffling. (If they want to lose, all they need to do is loosen the reins an instant and let the horse's head drop, or run into a jam, or lose a few lengths on a turn...
...unfortunately been balked at almost every turn by Russia. About our activities in Greece, Elliott declared that we would be "untrue to our tradition" if we held back. He spared no pains to remind his audience of Soviet machinations in Eastern Europe, which he felt were "violations as flagrant as any in history" of agreements between nations...
...story: Mrs. Cheveley (Paulette Goddard), a high-flying blackmailer, puts the bite on the most model husband and statesman in turn-of-the-century England. Unless he publicly endorses a flagrant speculation fraud, she will expose the one piece of youthful crookedness upon which his fortune and his career are founded. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) is all the more gruesomely trapped because he deeply loves his wife (Diana Wynyard), a noble but somewhat priggish woman who, he is sure, would cease to love him if he should fail to match her idealization of him. His close friend Lord Goring...