Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throne. Taking over virtually all powers in 1958, Feisal proceeded to turn in surplus budgets and stabilize the faltering rial at five to the dollar. He clipped the King's and the princes' spending money until they howled. He also patched up Saud's feud with Nasser, who was understandably annoyed at reports that Saud had spent $5,000,000 trying to have him assassinated. But Feisal had his shortcomings. Says a Saudi merchant: "He would not delegate authority. Feisal had great, almost puritanical integrity, but he was not a man of decision. His desk piled high...
Happily for Cambridge, Bundy has denied the Times story. And, while sighs of relief are surely in order, one is left speculating what low purpose the Times has in smearing Bundy's good name. Is it divide and conquer? Is it some hidden Yalie blood feud? Or is it just incompetence? One wonders...
...Wyzanski-McCormack feud is a family affair, arising from a misunderstanding. As attorney general of Massachusetts, McCormack's nephew, Edward McCormack Jr., had prepared a case against 18 road-paving companies, accusing them of conspiracy to fix prices in public highway construction. Mindful of the interests of 39 cities and towns that had done business with the firms, he fired off letters advising each community that it would have to file suit for triple damages before a certain deadline. Only nine of the towns made the deadline- and Wyzanski mistakenly decided that McCormack had somehow finagled the others...
...decided that the time had come to end his long feud with the Socialists. "Belgium must end its violent quarreling, its partisan rivalry, its sterile rancors," he told his followers. "A new generation demands a more farseeing attitude...
Phillips' election was not as automatic as expected, however. After outgoing college chairman Jerry B. Fulmer 3L had nominated Phillips as "absolutely outstanding," Chapman obtained the floor and began to attack Phillips on the basis of the feud within the HYRC. He was greeted with a loud mixture of hisses and applause...