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Macmillan made plain the British feeling that the U.S. 1) puts too much faith in the U.N. and 2) overestimates the rationality of Egypt's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom the British consider utterly reckless and untrustworthy. But both the Prime Minister and the President recognized, as Macmillan said, that Britain and the U.S. need each other's friendship and support, and cannot afford to let misunderstandings...
...Communists who, for the price of helping him, will enslave his people. Even as talk of a "successor" circulates in cafes and chancelleries, there are some who regret that a man with such promise for good should have been reduced by his overreaching ambitions to a cunning and reckless figure. Egyptians in time may say as Cato said of Caesar: "His virtues be execrated, for they have ruined my country...
Some people, Dr. Lanphier believes, should not even think of becoming skindivers : those with heart trouble or breathing difficulties, the obese, those who cannot easily equalize the pressure in their middle ear and sinuses, those with a perforated ear drum, and the reckless. Also, "men over 40 deserve special scrutiny." But the Navy expert's outlook, for all his warnings, is far from negative. Many physicians, notes 34-year-old Dr. Lanphier, a skindiver himself, regard diving as "a sport worthy of their own leisure moments. A more fascinating activity or a better means of keeping in condition...
This change of heart emerged from a Bundestag foreign-policy debate widely touted and televised as a keynote for the coming election campaign. The ruling Christian Democrats set out to show how wide the gap was between the government's foreign policy and the "reckless" ideas of the Socialists. Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano led off confidently...
...Sympathy. Near Ellensburg, Wash., after Bob Lillie careened his car down a near-vertical 150-ft. embankment, struggled free from the wreck, swam the swollen, debris-choked Yakima River to safety on an island, shivered there for seven hours, he was hauled off by cops, booked for reckless driving...