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...more than 20 years, the New York Daily News has waged implacable war against reckless drivers. Its weapon: the singularly effective crayon of Editorial Cartoonist Clarence D. Batchelor. His "Inviting the Undertaker" series has warned against passing on curves, exceeding the speed limit, taking "one for the road"-all varieties of danger on wheels...
...field day. With nonstriking teachers unable to keep control, the kids tossed erasers and toilet paper out the windows, threw eggs and rocks at the pickets, used their fists on everything from parked cars to one another. Board of Education President Max Rubin called the strike ''reckless, irresponsible, immoral and illegal." But the striking teachers stood their ground. 'The only way we can get dignity and respect is to show the city and the state we mean business," said one picket. ''They thought we were weak...
...Romeo (John Stride) jumps and pants in reckless adolescence. His Juliet (Joanna Dunham) is the giddy, giggling, starry-eyed and breathless hoyden she ought to be. This is, after all, not an impulsive love between maturing young adults but a doomed one between hapless children. "These violent delights have violent ends," observes Friar Laurence...
...Governor has already subordinated one respected national value, full legislative debate, to a vague phrase. In upholding Carlino's cheap, dishonest excuses he has indulged a reckless ends-justify-the-means policy in an area where, as he should know, the ends require careful definition and consideration...
...anonymous, front-page article in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, written by a cleric engaged in council preparations, warned the laity and the lower clergy not to "interfere in discussions reserved to the hierarchy itself." An example of such interference was Father Lombardi's book: "reckless and unjust." Last week, addressing Vatican Council II's preparatory commission. Pope John joined in the criticism: "It is to be hoped that various works-especially those by authors of a certain notoriety-be written with caution and objectivity to avoid rousing perplexity and confusion...