Word: colorations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the Supreme Court's language gave color to the idea that the court was reaching beyond a rule of law in an attempt to set a pattern of social behavior. The majority opinion, written by Justice John Marshall Harlan, favorably quoted Harvard Law Dean Erwin Griswold, a leading advocate of the anything-goes school of Fifth Amendment pleading. And a concurring opinion by Justice Hugo Black (with Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices William Douglas and William J. Brennan) argued that the use of the Fifth Amendment should neither "discredit" nor "convict" any person...
From his smart showrooms appropriately located on the edge of Beverly Hills, Lowitz supplies paintings in any shape, size, color, subject, style or quantity. Last year he sold about 40,000, mostly to hotels, and this year business is even brisker. In a recent typical week he sold 1,166 paintings to a Hollywood studio, a cluster of hotels, a golf club and a Los Angeles eating place called Coffee Dan's; fortnight ago he got an order from San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel for 3,564 paintings (all "very modern," mostly abstract); last week he sold...
Most of us complain about high taxes; maybe they keep us from getting that current model car, color TV, or hifi, but these things are luxuries, not necessities. If part of the tax money goes to foreign aid and helps bring some ragged, hungry child in another land a few necessities, we are proud...
...upward trend in television-set prices brought only smiles from Radio Corp. of America. RCA had hoped that its $500 color set would bring the big breakthrough for color TV. But when black-and-white prices slid as low as $100 on some new portables, color lost out. With black-and-white prices going up, closing the price gap on color, Vice President Robert Seidel said RCA color sales this year were running two to one over 1956. Sylvania's President Don Mitchell estimated that 1957 color sales by the entire industry will run from...
...COLOR TV PRICES will stay high "for a long, long time," says Radio Corp. of America President John L. Burns, who sees no scientific breakthrough for lower-cost color for "several years...