Word: boyd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than no output at all." Chrysler President Virgil Boyd adds that "one of the biggest problems is Monday absenteeism?the fellow who works two weeks and decides to take a long weekend." Detroit's worst lemons are usually found among cars built on a Monday because they are often put together by inexperienced substitute workers and veterans nursing hangovers...
EDWARD F. BOYD Manhattan
Selling a Client's Story Bill Boyd is a Texas lawyer who recently acquired an infamous client: Charles Watson, a local boy from Boyd's home town of McKinney who is a star suspect in the bizarre Sharon Tate murder case. Soon after Watson was arrested in McKinney, where he is now fighting extradition to California, the country lawyer revealed some big-city traits. As swarms of reporters begged for jailhouse interviews with his client, Boyd began dropping ten-gallon hints that Watson's family might go along -"if the offer is substantial...
...photographer offered $1,800. "We need lots and lots of money," retorted Boyd. How much? "About $50,000," said the lawyer. Though the press balked, Boyd still has not lowered his client's price-and he is quite sure that eventually he will...
...Boyd's fund-raising effort is a prime example of a growing phenomenon in notorious criminal cases: more and more lawyers try to make sure of collecting their fees and legal expenses by selling press interviews and book and movie rights to their clients' stories. Unfortunately, the roles of legal defender and literary agent may be in conflict...