Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what might otherwise have been first-degree murder could be instead second-degree." Toward this end, the defense will probably call Sirhan's former employer, Food-Store Owner John Weidner, who worried about Sirhan's irrational temper. Sirhan's mother and brothers are expected to claim that his personality deteriorated after he fell from a horse and landed on his head while working on a ranch two years before the murder...
...what will eventually be one of the world's largest hydroelectric projects on its side of the boundary. The Venezuelans particularly covet the bauxite and manganese in the disputed area, and last year even built a military base on Guyanese territory as a step toward enforcing the claim...
Over the years, the Post had proved so durable that it seemed death might never come. Oldtime editors rather liked the notion that the magazine was the direct descendant of a publication founded by Benjamin Franklin, even though they knew the claim was flawed.* Irreverently they nicknamed a Franklin bust in the editorial offices "Benny the Bum." Much more real were the roles of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, a self-made promotional genius from Maine, who bought the dying little paper in 1897 ($100 cash, $900 later), and Curtis' editor for 38 years, George Lorimer...
...full five months, including line-by-line reading of 15 volumes of appropriations-committee hearings, to produce a highly critical series on defense-procurement practices. Team Member Dick Barnes, 30, a former editor of the Stanford Daily, examined 12,000 property records in Detroit to document just one claim in a story charging mismanagement of federal antipoverty funds in that city-the fact that a former business associate of Mayor Jerome Cavanagh had benefited from unusually high rents paid for the program's headquarters. Rothberg's reading of a dreary Soil Conservation Service report paid off when...
...much polyunsaturated fat he is getting? That is difficult, says Furman, since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has forbidden food manufacturers to state the polyunsaturated fat content on the labels of their cooking oils and margarines. The FDA contends that such a statement is meant as a health claim, and would be so regarded by consumers. The ban, says Furman, denies the buyer information to which he is entitled...