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...stupidest actions I've ever heard of," said Georgia's Elliott Levitas...
Almost eight years after imposing its fierce brand of Communist rule over all of Viet Nam, Hanoi has a new claim to notoriety. "It seemed to me the worst country to live in," commented Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, as tie unveiled the State Department's annual human rights survey last week...
...opening remarks to a closing "My Turn" salute by Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, who observed that TIME and Newsweek have been "inevitably linked as a fated pair, like Macy's and Gimbels, Coke and Pepsi, Hertz and Avis." Former Newsweek Editor in Chief Osborn Elliott recalled the day in 1961 when Philip Graham bought the magazine from Vincent Astor's estate. "All he had was a personal check," reported Elliott. "He said later he had never written a check for that amount of money and didn't know if he should put zero zero...
...court anyway. Explained their lawyer, William McKenney: "The public thinks that when they see a blue uniform they can take a punch at it, that the police officer can take it. But police officers want to be treated as human beings." Nor was money the whole point when Elliott Jones, widow of Washington Cardiologist and Author Michael Halberstam, sued her husband's killer, a millionaire burglar named Bernard Welch. Jones won a $5.7 million award, but the IRS has first claim on Welch's assets. Even if she never gets a penny, Jones found a different recompense...
Kodak Spokesman Timothy Elliott said the matter was of "serious concern" to the company. He insisted that Kodak would hire from its pool of 100,000 job applicants on merit alone. If there are arrests, they would come under the Hobbs Act, which prohibits extortion in any business engaged in interstate commerce. Maximum penalty: $10,000 in fines and security of another sort-20 years in jail...