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Weight of Evidence. In London, after her auto turned turtle, outsized (217 Ib.) Housewife Pat Wilkins was fined $28 for reckless driving despite her explanation: "I'm really a very careful driver, but there was just so much weight on one side of the car that it overturned...
Despite any good intentions for his country, Eden, via his appallingly reckless policies, has foisted upon an already troubled free world another onerous, odious potpourri of perplexities, anxieties, and fears...
...tragically condemned to watch the rebellion in Hungary flare and thousands die. We have power, not for liberation, but only for annihilation. This does not condemn us, however, to either defeatism and isolation or to reckless war. Russian expansion can still be blocked. Our outraged sympathies must seek their outlet in rebuilding the fortunes of both freedom and peace. Ira M. Lapidus...
...There are wider implications than this, for this reckless and foolish decision has been taken just when events in Poland and Hungary had given the free world its greatest hope and encouragement for ten years...
...preoccupied with The Lone Ranger, NBC with Guy Lombardo and CBS with Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. (But CBS did carry the late session until closing.) And for the most part, both of the nation's biggest networks, which each week toss around gobs of sponsor dough with reckless abandon, carried the U.N. during cheap, second-rate time slots when their affiliates across the country were not contract-bound to carry the programs...