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...noted that a long war would greatly impair our position in Latin America...
...some money does change hands at supposedly amateur tournaments, Vice President Ed Turville of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association remarked dryly: "If a player wants to take money under the table, by his own act he is showing his dishonesty." The defection of the tantrum twins would almost surely impair U.S. Davis Cup prospects for two or three years to come, but Turville was clearly reflecting the considered opinion of many U.S. lovers of the game when he added: "I am pleased that they are turning professional...
...Bible, is just the one made by defenders of segregation. There is a fundamental conflict here. The irony of this case is that in employing civil disobedience and challenging the authority of the Supreme Court--but not in just criticizing it--Willard Uphaus might in the long run impair its development as the defender of civil rights and civil liberties...
...want to impair the pension rights of any present employee," says Newhouse, "but I want the profits hereafter to be used for the improvement of the physical plant and of the newspapers themselves." As far as Custodian Cook is concerned, Newhouse can whistle somewhere else for a meal-at least until 1967. Said Cook last week: "Newhouse has met a bunch of New England Yankees up here who are just as stubborn...
...George Washington counseled in his Farewell Address, "as little political connection as possible" with foreign nations. That outlook came to be called "isolationism," though what Washington advised, and what most Americans wanted, was not isolation but avoidance of permanent entanglements that might drag the U.S. into alien quarrels or impair its sovereignty. Cabot Lodge, before World War II, outspokenly shared that viewpoint. He fought most of F.D.R.'s attempts to commit the U.S. to the allied side, though he backed Roosevelt's big defense budgets...