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...hands and ham instincts. In a plot that tingles with incentives, "the five richest men in the territory" converge on a poky frontier town for their annual poker classic. An Indian massacre would probably cause less excitement, certainly less fanaticism. To get there on time, Mortician Charles Bickford all but burns the wheels off his best hearse. Landowner Jason Robards, biting into every line like a hungry barracuda, walks out on his daughter's wedding, and Lawyer Kevin McCarthy leaves a client's neck in the noose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aces Wild | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...revealed that the State Department asked embassies to pass on "pertinent information" about H. Stuart Hughes's activities during a trip he made to Europe. Harvard and M.I.T. establish a $1 million nonprofit corporation to promote planning and urban development in Cambridge. A man in Hayes Bickford's urges people to decorate the City with clothespins. The Lampoon names Natalie Wood the worst actress of this year, next year and the year after that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A la Recherche de 1965-66, Part 2 | 6/15/1966 | See Source »

Although the outcome of their $20,000 discrimination suit against Hayes-Bickford is still uncertain, chances are that the case can procede without further difficulty now that Uchenna Nwosu '64 and Femi Okuorounnu '63 have been located...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nigerians Found; Suit to Proceed | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...whereabouts of two Harvard graduates from Nigeria who failed to appear in court Monday to settle their discrimination suit against Hayes-Bickford remain a mystery...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Nigerians Skip Court In Own Suit With Bick | 10/6/1965 | See Source »

...failure of the plaintiff to come to court, a case automatically goes to judgment, which means that the plaintiffs are assessed for the small costs incurred by the incompleted trial. This may well be easier said than done in the case of the missing pair, an attorney for Hayes-Bickford commented last night...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: Nigerians Skip Court In Own Suit With Bick | 10/6/1965 | See Source »

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