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...four years ago, when Nikita Khrushchev was in power and Son-in-Law Alelcsei Adzhubei was editor of Izvestia. But now Adzhubei, 43, is just a features editor on the magazine Soviet Union, and the Russian press was only too willing to note that he had been charged with reckless driving for running down a woman as she pushed her baby carriage across the street. Adzhubei could have been jailed for ten years if mother or child had been seriously injured. The woman did suffer a concussion, but the child was unhurt, and Adzhubei was let off with a small...
Western democracy was centuries in the creating. Teaching its fragile forms and subtle exercises to an alien culture would be a difficult experiment in the best of circumstances. To try to transplant democracy to Viet Nam in the year 1967 would seem a rash and reckless enterprise in the worst of places at the worst of times. Yet this year, South Viet Nam has promulgated a constitution written by a popularly elected Constituent Assembly. Voters in more than 4,000 villages and hamlets have gone to the polls to choose their own local officials. And last week the people...
...Fashioned Virtue. As Nixon's running mate in 1960, Lodge was accused by party pros of not going all out in campaigning. His version is that he was properly pacing himself to sooth an ulcer and avoid the fatigue that too often produces reckless campaign statements. Again, no matter: another political defeat afforded Lodge the chance for even more disinterested public service-his two separate stints as U.S. Ambassador to Viet Nam, first for Kennedy, then for Johnson...
...cause injury. Indeed, one member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Judge Roger Kiley, agreed that "automobiles are intended to be used in an environment in which a traffic death occurs every eleven minutes and an injury every 19 seconds, and in which there are reckless, irresponsible drivers like Bigham. In my opinion, General Motors is chargeable with the duty of reasonably foreseeing the probable dangers" of building a car capable of high speeds...
SELECTED LETTERS OF DYLAN THOMAS, edited by Constantine FitzGibbon. This carefully culled selection of the tragic Welsh poet's letters painfully - and touchingly -reveals that his chronic fault was a reckless profligacy in everything...