Word: felix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorites among the pros: Federated Department Stores, Sears and other retail chains that stand to benefit from an upsurge in consumer spending as inflation abates, purchasing power increases and the recovery gains momentum. Lately many mutual and pension fund managers have been looking kindly on new stock issues. Says Felix Juda, a Los Angeles broker who specializes in trading for professional money managers: "In the past few weeks, the institutions have become very heavy buyers of new offerings...
...literally, with murder. Civil libertarians, on the other hand, protest that bargains enable the state to get convictions in shaky cases. With serious criminals apparently getting off too lightly and the innocent sometimes getting shafted, plea bargaining has a deservedly disastrous public image and clearly violates the precept of Felix Frankfurter that "justice must satisfy the appearance of justice...
...while, they and the Republicans controlling the state senate could not seem to face up to the crisis. The businessmen had to persuade the politicians that default was a genuine possibility, with disastrous consequences for the city's ability to raise money in the future. Said Felix Rohatyn, a New York investment banker who was a key participant in the negotiations: "In a business deal, everyone is usually talking the same language. But here the political process didn't always permit the parties to interrelate with each other in a sensible way." Even after the outlines...
Died. Marion Frankfurter, 84, wife of the late Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter and a shrewd judge of issues and personalities in her own right; in a Washington, D.C., nursing home. A witty, no-nonsense Massachusetts girl, Marion Frankfurter was the editor of many of her husband's nonjudicial writings. Never shy about deflating the sometimes pedantic and opinionated Justice when circumstances seemed to call for it, she once cracked that "there are only two things wrong with Felix's speeches: he digresses and he returns to the subject." Crippled with arthritis and in need of constant, expensive...
Mock Burial. More recently, Tom-balbaye's opposition has come from fellow Bantu military officers and members of his own party as well. In 1973 General Felix Malloum, then commander in chief of the army, was arrested for allegedly conspiring to overthrow Tombalbaye. Early this year Mrs. Kaltouma Guembang, former head of the Progressive Party's women's wing, was tried for attempting to kill the President by witchcraft. She allegedly hired wizards to pierce the eyes of a black sheep-symbolizing Tombalbaye-and bury it alive. The movement to oust Tombalbaye gained momentum last summer when...