Word: belli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Melvin Belli San Francisco...
...these skirmishes were part of what Europeans call the Great Franco-Italian Wine War. The casus belli is a glut of gros rouge, the rough red wine that is the lifeblood of most Mediterraneans and a mainstay of France and Italy's agricultural economy. A bumper harvest last year helped to create a Common Market surplus of 2.6 billion gal. At the same time, French consumers have been cutting back at the rate of one bottle a head; consumption dropped from a total of 1.3 billion gal. in 1973 to a mere 1.2 billion in 1974. Complains one French...
Since Israel would have greeted any Syrian demand to eliminate the force as a casus belli, the Waldheim visit removed a lot of the tension that earlier caused Israel to mobilize troops...
...Genesis was primarily notable for offering charter readers two centerfold nudes for the going price of one. Still another former Gallery hand, Photographer George Santo Pietro, 26, jumped ship to lay plans for Coq (pronounced, he insists, "coke"), which has yet another lawyer-on-a-lark (Melvin Belli) scheduled to hold the title of publisher...
...money just makes it interesting," said Belli, "but I've been sore at Martindale-Hubbell for years." At the heart of Belli's charge is the question of how Martindale-Hubbell compiles its ratings. According to his complaint, the firm sends out confidential questionnaires from its headquarters in Summit, N.J., to already-rated attorneys in an applicant's area. Belli argues that this system creates "a self-perpetuating trust" that favors "a small, silk-stocking, knickerbocker, split-fee club of inept commercial lawyers," and discriminates against "far more capable young lawyers who are not yet involved with...