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...speak out was Udall. Said he: "I do really regret that of all the advanced industrial societies, we seem to be the one that is most inclined toward this sort of thing, but this will not change my plans in the slightest." Nor, friends were saying, would the incident alter the activities of the two men who have the most reason to fear the Squeaky Frommes of the world. When, as expected, Alabama's George Wallace announces for the presidency, he will still campaign as vigorously as possible, fighting the paralysis caused by the bullets fired by Arthur Bremer...
...Ford herself took the whole controversy with equanimity as she vacationed in Vail, Colo. Her only regret seemed to be the fact that too many people thought she was advocating premarital sex, rather than simply expressing a realistic, motherly attitude toward the possibility of it. "Our family," she added, "was brought up on the fact that marriage is the greatest thing in the world." As for the person most directly involved in the uproar, Susan Ford said that her mother "did a good job, talked about things people should talk about." She was more reticent about her current boy friend...
...month before his 30th birthday in 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in a sailing accident on the Mediterranean. Back in London, the Gentleman's Magazine harrumphed: "We ought as justly to regret the decease of the Devil." A far different post-mortem came from Lord Byron, who called Shelley "the best and the least selfish man I ever knew. I never knew one who was not a beast in comparison...
Finally giving in to the pressure, Madrid last week declared its intention "to transform the sovereignty over the territory as soon as possible in the form and manner that best suits the inhabitants." While Franco must regret losing the valuable phosphate deposits, he has undoubtedly learned from the Portuguese experience just how costly an attempt to hang on to a colony can be. Moreover, as a Madrid University political scientist notes: "What this government does not need is a new international problem...
...Senate never acted, and U.S. courts for the most part have reluctantly followed precedent. For example, when the Navy tanker Mission San Francisco was rammed by the Liberian freighter S.S. Elna II, a circuit court of appeals decided that the San Francisco's "faults were grave," but "with regret" divided the $3.8 million damages...