Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five weeks after skipping $100,000 bail to avoid life imprisonment in the U.S. for wartime espionage, Convicted Soviet Spy Dr. Robert Soblen, 61, was refused asylum in Britain, as he had been in Israel. Expertly carving himself up with a steak knife as he was being returned to the U.S. aboard an El Al Israel Airlines jet, Soblen gained a stay in London, but British judges were unmoved by his plea of illness and persecution. Britain's Home Secretary told Parliament: "Dr. Soblen is a fugitive from a sentence imposed on him by the courts of a country...
...With BMEWS, he proved that he could handle touchy and cost-conscious subcontractors, that he knew how to keep materials moving, that he dared to talk up to superiors at home while keeping subordinates happy on the job. Easygoing engineers in search of placid lives had already learned to avoid...
...grants" to the Prince Edward School Foundation, but there remained a prickly question: Could the county be compelled to reopen its public schools? Since ultimate responsibility for public education falls upon the states, Judge Lewis ruled last week that the county's schools "may not be closed to avoid the effect of the law of the land as interpreted by the Supreme Court, while the Commonwealth of Virginia permits other public schools to remain open at the expense of the taxpayers." Therefore, ruled the judge, Prince Edward must submit a plan to reopen its schools to all pupils "without...
...Government to determine how much it was overcharged can be used to settle out of court some 1,600 other suits that have been brought against G.E. by private and municipal power companies. Such settlements, said the G.E. president, would "ensure equity to all parties involved and avoid years of costly litigation." Even so, the cost to G.E. promised to be enormous-$45 million to $50 million over the next few years, by Cordiner's estimate...
...million backlog of shipbuilding orders and offered to pay 50% of its debts within two years. If the court and creditors agreed to receivership on these terms, the company would continue to operate under a state-appointed administrator. There was also some hope that Schlieker KG could avoid receivership entirely by working out a rescue operation through the banks. During the week, the Dresdner Bank arranged to beef up Schlieker's capital base by $1,000,000, and Munich Private Banker Rudolf Münemann, another of Germany's postwar millionaires, hustled up to Hamburg to huddle with...