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...Georgia-Alabama game. Indeed, the judge went out of his way to commend that verdict. "The article was clearly defamatory and extremely so," he said. "The jury was warranted in concluding from the persistent and continuing attitude of the officers and agents of the defendant that there was a wanton or reckless indifference to the plaintiff's rights." But if Butts refused to accept the reduction in judgment, said Judge Morgan, the court had no choice except to grant the Post a new trial...
Arthur E. Sutherland, Bussey Professor of Law, took strong issue yesterday with Gov. George C. Wallace's charge that the 1954 desegregation decision was a "wanton seizure of legislative power" and at abandonment of judicial precedent...
...incidents came before the Security Council, the U.S. usually stayed neutral. This time Israel had followed U.S. advice and appealed for Security Council action-hence the U.S. policy switch to support Israel. At week's end the U.S. and Great Britain introduced a joint resolution that condemned "the wanton murder" and called "the attention of the Syrian Arab Republic" to the assembled evidence...
...armed services" [May 31]. As young members of the Officers' Corps of the U.S. Air Force, we look upon Secretary McNamara's efforts to give some meaningful purpose to military expenditures as a refreshing breeze in an otherwise cesspool atmosphere of basic incompetence, empire building, wanton waste and a "don't rock the gravy train" attitude. Secretary McNamara's reforms have had the only really uplifting effect on officer morale in the past five years...
Photographers find the new ads a highly specialized art form. Because the ads must appeal to women, the model must be healthily sexy but not voluptuous or wanton. Then the trick is to determine to a micrometer the line between tasteful appeal and tasteless eroticism. Photographers spend hours adjusting a fan to blow a bit of drapery across a bare breast at just the crucial angle, contrive ingenious arm arrangements in contortions few females would be likely to assume, vie with each other to find props (a white cat, a shower curtain) that will generally obscure what is being specifically...