Word: defunction
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...Peter Bridge was cited for contempt and jailed for 20 days for refusing to go beyond a story about official corruption he wrote for the defunct Newark Evening News: Edwin Goodman served 44 hours of a 30-day sentence for refusing to hand over WBAI-FM tapes of a prison riot; William Farr has been in jail since Nov. 27 for refusing to disclose his source for a Los Angeles Times article about the Charles Manson murder trial...
Many individuals have been drawn into the fields because they savor living close to the soil while creating a product of pleasure. Jack Davies left his job as vice president of a Los Angeles metals company in 1965 in order to try reviving a then defunct champagne cellar. His Schramsberg champagne is now acknowledged to be the best produced in the nation, and last February President Nixon brought 14 cases to Peking to toast Chou Enlai. Russell Green abandoned his post as president of Signal Oil Co. to take over the Simi winery. Today it is one of the many...
Over the past year some things have changed. The Phoenix is defunct; the James Montgomery Blues Band, though still unrecorded, has set its sights on making it big, with recording imminent. In pursuit of fame, they have ranged far from Boston and have outgrown the purely local following so notably cultivated over the last year and a half. Lake the J. Geils Band, they hope for a national reputation, national media-oriented identifies as musicians, and national-sized dough stardom, the height of professional success, the logical ambitious step for a band who proved unequivocally to Boston audiences what...
...court, an earlier jury and the recent one determined that Alioto had indeed been defamed by the Look article, which both juries concluded was false in one or more of its allegations. In his suit, Alioto had asked $12.5 million in damages from Cowles Communications, which published the now defunct Look, and the company's board chairman Gardner Cowles. Although the juries agreed that Alioto had been wronged, both refused to award damages, contending that they were unable to decide if the article was intended to do him malicious harm...
David Ignatius wants to revive the now defunct Harvard Undergraduate Council, a single elected body representing all the undergraduates. Unlike the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, this group would concentrate on "controversial" and "important" issues...