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Among businessmen, the bishops' letter evoked mixed responses. "I came away with a feeling that these are well-meaning people who really don't understand our capitalistic system," said Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. (ret.), chairman of Milwaukee-based American Medical Buildings. But Roger Altman, managing director of Shearson Lehman/American Express and a self-described "serious Catholic," was sympathetic. Said he: "Our society has an obligation to the underprivileged, and the degree to which we haven't made progress in raising their living standards is enormously troubling." Observed Joseph Pichler, a Catholic who is president of Dillon...
...Elmo R. Zumwalt...
...high court also did itself a favor. In a ruling that may make litigants think twice about wasting the justices' efforts on hopeless appeals, they implemented a 1980 rule for the first time. Former Student Elmo Tatum, in a series of unsuccessful legal maneuvers labeled "entirely without merit" by a lower court, sued the University of Nebraska on a housing grievance. In a terse order, not only did the court turn down his appeal, it made him pay $500 in damages. Although the amount was modest, the message seemed clear: the court appears to be getting tougher on what...
...just R and B covers, Jagger was caught by surprise, responding "Oh! You're right; that's a good idea." But still the Stones have always tended to fall back on what they know best: Black American blues. For quite a while, Brian Jones favored the stage name Elmo Lewis...
...Harmon), a political comer who weds Constance Wei-don (Morgan Fairchild), the snooty illegitimate daughter of Whorehouse Madam Lute-Mae Sanders (Stella Stevens) and Millowner Claude Weldon (Kevin Mc Carthy), who is married to the patrician Eudora Weldon (Barbara Rush), whose affair with the town's newspaper editor, Elmo Tyson (Mason Adams), may have produced teen-age Skipper Weldon (Woody Brown), who aims to elope with Waitress Annabelle Troy (Dianne Kay), who dies in a fire at Claude's mill that was planned by Truro's venal sheriff, Titus Semple (Howard Duff...