Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After suing A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, 48, for divorce on the ground of multiple adultery, Marjorie Steele Hartford, 31 and married to him for eleven years, was reported to be asking a world record $25 million property settlement. The exact amount is a court secret because a Manhattan judge decided that the case and Marjorie's accusations should not be aired in public. Last week, however, Marjorie's attorneys came out in the open to ask for temporary alimony, and that amount was enough to bug the eyeballs of even such a wealthy chap as Hartford...
Complex forms of organization exact another price: the requirement that everyone abide by the rules of the game, Parsons said...
Even if the exact need were known, however, it is far from clear who should establish and operate the "Peace Corps." Mr. F. Taylor Ostrander, a businessman who addressed the conference, favored government administration. Private groups, he said, could not deal as well with foreign governments. And administration would be difficult, especially if a group of existing foundations had to coordinate the effort...
...does one need to cast very far back for another example: the suppression of the CIA "prestige" report is an exact parallel to the Labor Department's move. Whatever the value of such a report, and however genuine the entire issue of prestige, the people had a right to judge for themselves. And in the same vein of cynical contempt for the public's intelligence was this summer's trick of dating checks for items bought last fiscal year payable in this fiscal year. In effect, this rigged the figures to show an artificially balanced budget to the electorate...
...almost mock care: "Senator Kennedy went out on the front lawn with his daughter Caroline and her dog, Charlie--C-H-A-R-L-I-E." Various members of the clan, he said, had been hiking and playing touch football, next to politics, the favorite Kennedy sport. He read exact direct quotes of the most inconsequential nature: Jack to his brother Teddy, "What do you say, Teddy? Do you want to take a walk on the beach?" Neighbors to the Senator: "Hi, Jack. We're awfully proud...