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...warm young voices, the sonorous old voices. Billions of words about it were printed, and closely read. In Accra, where the equatorial sun beats down on the white church steeples (relics of a vanished Danish empire), parties were held in celebration. Paris noted it, and Panama. In heedless Manhattan, thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne, became the wife of Philip Mountbatten...
...yourself, go to ZDNet's PC Week Online zdnet.com/pcweek for a video playback of the Microsoft chairman's floor technique. All in all, it was a fine way to undercut a nasty spate of bad p.r.--if this decade's Darth Vader can cut loose like a heedless frat boy, he can't be all bad, right? Especially with that...
...Judges must follow their oaths and do their duty, heedless of editorials, letters, telegrams, picketers, threats, petitions, panelists, and talk shows. In this country, we do not administer justice by plebiscite...
Carson died of cancer less than two years later, at 57, but Silent Spring uncapped a wellspring of fears about the effects of heedless industrialization that still flows. A testament to her posthumous victory is the fact that the giant Monsanto Corp., which led the chemical industry's attempts to discredit her in 1962, today integrates environmental concerns into its strategic planning...
...these folks know they're fox-trotting on the edge of a volcano? No, of course not. They never do. But we do. We've been partying with their heedless ilk on the eve of disaster since we started going to the movies. We know that when the pretty girl and the handsome lad start moonily planning their future, the crump-crump-crump of an artillery barrage is but a moment away...