Word: ashley
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...cried British Labor M.P. Jack Ashley last month during a House of Commons debate on a subject that has roused his countrymen as few issues have done in recent years: compensation for some 400 children who were born deformed after their mothers took the tranquilizer thalidomide between 1958 and 1961. Belatedly awakened to the financial as well as the physical plight of the children, Britons have responded with a torrent of outrage directed at the former distributor of the drug, giant Distillers Co. Ltd. More important, perhaps, the outcry appears to have forced a widespread public examination of the outdated...
...there anybody out there? Probably, agreed a symposium of scientists at Boston University. But would they want to have anything to do with us? "With our magnificent record with the Indians, the Chinese, the Filipinos, you can imagine what will happen," declared Anthropologist Ashley Montagu. Added Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning biologist-professor George Wald: "However horrifying and destructive, you can't think of anything so horrible that somebody would not feel elated at carrying it out." As a matter of fact, said Cornell Astronomer Carl Sagan, other civilizations may already know about us because of our high-frequency...
...TIME'S Press section of Jan. 24, you reported the arrest of Courier-Journal Reporter Frank Ashley in Owsley County, Ky., on charges of impersonating a lawyer in order to interview prisoners in a jail. Ashley had earlier written several articles about nepotism in a federal job program in Owsley County. It was a clear case of a reporter being harassed by local officials who disliked his stories. Ashley came to trial, after a change of venue, in Lee County Circuit Court in June. The jury acquitted him of the charges after deliberating only 23 minutes...
...Ashley's prodding led to a statewide anti-nepotism order. But the Booneville officials retaliated: Campbell announced that the county would accept no more federal employment funds, and Mclntosh busted Ashley on the charge he had falsely identified himself as a lawyer when he interviewed Scale in jail...
Arraigned before Judge Campbell in Booneville's local self-service laundry, Ashley denied the accusation and was released on bond. Subsequently, under pressure from the state, the judge agreed to comply with the anti-nepotism order, reinstate the employment program, and review all applications for jobs previously held by officials' relatives. Further, Campbell disqualified himself from sitting in judgment on the reporter. Though the case was referred to a grand jury last week, meaning more legal skirmishing to come for Ashley, he had already won the battle in Booneville...