Word: breach
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Michigan's attorney general has ruled that Geralds' crime does not constitute a "breach of the public trust," as defined in the state's constitution. He is therefore not liable to automatic dismissal. The ruling means that Geralds' fellow legislators must take personal responsibility for his expulsion by a two-thirds majority of the 109-member house. It is a task that they−or at least his 67 fellow Democrats−approach with great reluctance. Says House Speaker Bobby Crim: "There is definitely sympathy for a man who has a family and where there...
This small breach in Jackie's protective façade may be a signal of things to come. In a few weeks it will be ten years since Bobby Kennedy's death. In a few months it will be 15 years since Dallas Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. has written a large book on Bobby, having been given the right to mine Bobby's archives by himself. After the book emerges in June, the tapes and papers will be opened to other scholars. This will signal another major step into the era of the recorded recollections...
Although CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn had originally opposed giving Braniff the Dallas-London route (he wanted it to go to Pan Am), he moved quickly to defend the Texas-based airline. In a plea to the White House. Kahn denounced Britain's action as a "fundamental and flagrant breach" of the Bermuda II pact, which governs air travel between the two countries. He urged Carter to retaliate by suspending British Caledonian's flights between London and Houston, that airline's only service...
...Wilhelmina, heads of the two largest New York agencies, say that he had assured them that he would not invade. But invade he did, and he also hired Ford's financial controller and two of her top booking agents. Ford retaliated with a $7.5 million lawsuit against Casablancas for breach of fiduciary trust. Nevertheless, he now has 19 of Ford's models under contract and 16 of Wilhelmina's, for which she too is suing him. Protests Casablancas: "I did not snatch bodies. They are thinking people...
...Police Blotter To Fame and Fortune in 14,781 Easy Steps. Or J. Anthony Lukas's Nightmare, his "Help me I think I'm falling in love with you" paean to the scandal that provided him three good years of upper-middle tax-bracket living. Or Teddy White's Breach of Faith, an act of penance for his canonization of Nixon...