Word: recklessness
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That was the spirit in which the convention began. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins decried the "reckless adventurism" of more militant civil rights groups. Warned Carl Rowan, a Negro and director of the U.S. Information Agency: "Don't use an elephant gun to hunt toads." Counseled Guest Speaker Hubert Humphrey, the Senate's Democratic floor manager for the civil rights bill: "There is a place and a time for banners. But there is also a time to stack the banners for a while and get down to the patient, infinitely detailed work of making civil rights realities...
...active and sane direction. Reactionary and reckless men have no place in the presidency, nor do they have a place in its candidacy...
...many accidents. The Maine and California surveys corroborate the contention; both report that the big cars have a substantially higher accident rate. Because the small-compacts have relatively modest engines, their drivers do not feel that heady sense of power that tempts teen-agers and frustrated males to reckless speed, which is admittedly the principal single cause of accidents...
...high gear, but Sam Houston Johnson, 50, is a more conservative Texas sort: he just gets into trouble going backwards. Last week, he backed his 1964 Pontiac out of an Austin parking lot, then banged into a passing delivery truck, wound up with "minor fender" damage, a ticket for reckless driving and a $10 fine...
...Corporation should recommend that the University withdraw its investment. The University should also begin a thorough examination of all its investments. What it true of Mississippi Power and Light may be true of other companies in which Harvard has holdings. To retain passively its Mississippi holdings would be a reckless denial of Harvard's responsibility...