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Another Sacrifice. Silverman's ruling relied heavily on the New York Times v. Sullivan. In that 1964 case, the U.S. Supreme Court held that no "public official" could recover damages for libel unless he could prove "malice," that is, a "reckless disregard" of truth. Silverman extended the Supreme Court doctrine to cover Pauling, who is admittedly no public official, but who has become politically prominent as a result of his activities and public statements. "Dr. Pauling," wrote Silverman, "has added the prestige of his reputation to aid the causes in which he believes. I merely hold that...
...world has known many tyrants, but few were as reckless, as demanding, as pretentious, as noisy and, at the end, as rejected as Kwame Nkrumah. He was the founder of his country and had been the very symbol of black African independence. Yet last week when he was overthrown, scarcely a tear was shed for him in Africa or anywhere else in the world...
...million Volta River Project will eventually turn Ghana into West Africa's major producer of electric power and irrigate 6,000 sq. mi. of new farmland. But not for many years will there be customers for all the juice it will generate. All in all, Nkrumah's reckless spending has brought Ghana as close to bankruptcy as any nation can get. Foreign currency reserves were wiped out long ago, and the nation's foreign debt now totals a staggering $1 billion, most of it in short-term loans...
Where the Spies Are, true to formula, dares the challenge of trying to keep its tongue in James Bond's cheek. The setting is Beirut this time, and the man of the Are is David Niven, droll indeed as a middle-aged physician and reckless driver. Photoflash rings, trick fountain pens and the transistor in his lower left molar rather embarrass him. Bribed by British intelligence (running short of certified spies, understandably) with the promise of a Cord Le Baron, Niven flies off to run interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers...
Following a misunderstanding about the hours Rod spends with his secretary, Doris flies off to Paris with an antique dealer (Sergio Fantoni). It is only a shopping junket, but Doris gets drunk, gets reckless, finally gets trapped for the night in a tiny shop where the dealer tries to arouse her interest in a highly compromising old bed. Eventually, she recaptures wedded bliss, but not until she lands by mistake in another wrong bed. In fact, she is the incarnation of a loud, bumptious, overdressed lady tourist on the town. Which raises another question: If Doris Day becomes America...