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...anything but arbitrary, unjust, and offensive. Punishing a handful of randomly selected scapegoats will stir, not deter, rancorous anti-University protests. It will weaken, not encourage, respect for the rules. Most important, it would simply be unreasonable, and there is no compelling reason for the University to rush headlong now into harsh action...
...conditions for the city's Negro population. You charge that he "leaped into the issue"; while your previous statement says that the issue had been proposed for debate in city council five times, and had five times been refused. Action following this could hardly be termed a headlong "leap." Your solution is that either Father Groppi cool off or that the white community become sympathetic. That the latter would happen of itself is absurd; that the former would bring about the latter is equally absurd. Pressure, unfortunately, has been proven effective. "Cooling off" could at most bring...
...foreign-based operations, however, have always left it vulnerable to worldwide upheavals. During World War II, for example, Behn succeeded in saving his corporation from disaster only by hurriedly negotiating the sale of several overseas holdings. Trying to strengthen the company at home after the war, Behn rushed headlong into the domestic-appliance field, buying up Capehart-Farnsworth Corp. (record players, TV sets, radios) and Coolerator Corp. (refrigerators, air conditioners). Both lost money, were finally abandoned...
Hand Signals. As the second and third Syrian positions were literally overrun in the same headlong fashion, Colonel Arie,*the column commander, was wounded. Major Rafi, who leaped into the turret of the lead tank to take his place, was killed instantly as the column blasted its way through the final...
...financial plight, her allies in the Far East were troubled by the new policy. The U.S., Australia and New Zealand are worried that they will have to assume the obligations that Britain is abandoning. President Johnson seems to believe that the British can be dissuaded from a headlong retreat. He said that he was "very hopeful that the British would maintain their interest in that part of the world." Secretary of State Rusk publicly regretted Britain's decision, but he warned pointedly that aggressors in Asia "should take no comfort" from the pullout...