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Testifying last, Director Lilienthal was expected to supply the major fireworks. Although he occasionally put some feeling into his voice, once pounded his desk, his was mostly another long, dull recital. After deploring the "reckless charges, insinuations and unjustifiable slurs" of a "character assassin," Director Lilienthal defended his "yardstick," his negotiations with Commonwealth & Southern, the wisdom and economy of his power program. Of the Berry Marble Case he said: "I deny flatly that I adopted ... a position of deference to Major Berry. . . . This particular situation concerns a mere difference of opinion ... as to the course of procedure best adopted...
...valley and gazed a dizzy thousand feet down a sheer granite cliff. This river was also slow and gently, meandering through meadows which were solid yellow from their cloaks of mountain daisies. But it was the quiet of a river which is battered and exhausted from the reckless rush through a steep gorge where it has been cut to snowy foam against the chaotic jumble of jagged boulders, where it has hurtled over precipices--not in smooth little aprons but in balls of white water which shoot far out into the air and then plummet downwards like rockets, leaving behind...
...foment it. But knowing human beings, Maugham cynically foils her, shows how the sins of the mothers, far from being visited upon succeeding generations, become their copybook maxims. And knowing the theatre as well, Maugham makes his demonstration witty and compact-a lesson for playwrights if not for reckless wives...
...former president of the University was arrested early yesterday afternoon as he returned from the Boston Municipal Airport for reckless flying...
...days before the Armistice Victor Jourdain died, but for nearly two years previous police had suspected him and he had turned over to others the reckless venture he had begun. In four years 171 issues were distributed (some a week late) and only the last was openly issued without fear of death. Victor Jourdain had made good his taunt: "We defy our persecutors ever to silence us. Truth will cry louder than their lies...