Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-trumpeted Justice Department suit accusing General Motors of illegally monopolizing the manufacture and sale of buses (TIME, March 19) was finally announced last week with a touch of TV hoopla (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The 13-page complaint filed in Detroit's Federal District Court charged that G.M.'s bus division (annual sales: $55 million) conspired with four major bus operators to corner 84% (2,724 units) of the bus market last year. Its largest competitor, the Flxible Co., sold only...
...reported his upcountry customers asking: "If America is giving so much money to Thailand, why don't they make the government improve itself?" A resentful feeling that Thailand is bound too closely to the U.S. is also running high. A fortnight ago, as if in response to this complaint, the government announced the resumption of "normal trade relations" with Red China...
...Wantuch made a surprise call at Robinson's aerie. To Wantuch's own surprise, the elevator disgorged him, unannounced, smack in the middle of the tough guy's living room. Then in strolled the doll, Fashion Designer Jane Adler, 42, named in Gladys Robinson's complaint. As the brunette swiftly exited, Actor Robinson, 62, bounced up at stage center, reached for no shoulder-holstered gat, but rasped: "Do you think it's right to walk in on people like this?" Apologizing, Newshawk Wantuch, his tabloid fodder virtually in the hopper, edged back for the elevator...
...Family. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., two young waitresses got into conversation in their attorney's office where both were filing divorce suits, learned that each had the same complaint-a wife-beating husband-also that each had the same husband, filed bigamy charges instead...
...skills, it should be as scientific in spirit as Albers makes his courses. But in terms of his own art the answer is harder. If the paint-slinging frenzies of the abstract expressionists strike most people as being plain convulsive, Albers' pristine experiments give rise to the opposite complaint: that they are too tricky and cold...