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Geneva figured heavily in another pending U.S. weapon decision, namely the fate of the MX in Congress. Reagan seemed on the verge last week of rescuing the controversial missile yet again from a funding cutoff by the Legislative Branch. In a highly polished lobbying campaign, he spoke to 150 members of Congress in small groups at the White House, constantly stressing that the U.S. would lose vital leverage in Geneva without the MX, which is scheduled to come up for a series of funding votes in the next few weeks. Using his favorite name for the missile, the President pleaded...
...court, Disney cultivates other pluses. Attorney Carl Hovland's experience with one case is typical. A woman and her son were taking Disneyland's Autopia car ride in 1975 when a 16-ft.-long branch from a eucalyptus tree fell in their path. They stopped their car, but others rammed them from behind. Hovland figured he could win on several points: a tree in rotten condition, a poorly designed roadway and cars without headrests. After a seven-week trial, the jury deliberated only 1 1/2 hours. Verdict...
...bottle of Cutty Sark Scotch whisky went up last week, to $72,500. That, at least, is what Joseph and Catherine Zak's insurance company will have to pay for the bottle they served to Donald Gwinnell back in 1980. After leaving the Zaks' home in Long Branch, N.J., Gwinnell smashed his car head on into a car driven by Marie Kelly, who sued. Last June the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the Zaks and other hosts could be found liable if they served liquor directly to a guest and sent him out drunk onto the highways...
Deak-Peters President Leslie Deak, who could not be reached for comment, told the protesters through the Boston branch manager that they should concentrate on to customers about not buying the coin, according to MIT professor Willard Johnson, the demonstrators' spokesman...
Elements of the library of the future are already in place. Any branch equipped with a terminal can retrieve the full text of scores of newspapers, magazines and professional journals through data-base services like Lockheed's Dialog and Mead's NEXIS and LEXIS systems. LEXIS, for example, allows a subscriber to display on the computer screen the text of every federal court decision handed down in the past 30 years. The services are a godsend to researchers who regularly search through large numbers of documents for a few key words or phrases. A student doing a paper on juvenile...