Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unexpected Evidence. Ever since 1957, after Miami Contractor Edwin M. Green learned that he had lung cancer, Dr. Hastings has been in court suing the American Tobacco Co. for $1,500,000 in damages, charging that its Lucky Strike cigarettes, which Green smoked at the rate of as many as three packs a day for 32 years, caused the contractor's illness. While the first trial was in progress, Green provided some unexpected evidence by dying of the disease...
Hastings won a verdict that cigarettes did indeed cause Green's death, but the jury refused to award any damages to Green's wife and son. Since the knowledge of tobacco's dangers was not established until the mid-1950s, the jury agreed that the American Tobacco Co. could not have known during most of Green's smoking years that cigarettes can cause cancer. Later, after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Florida law subjects any product sold for public consumption to an "implied warranty" that it is not harmful, the Federal Court of Appeals ordered...
...controversy. His hopes began to fade when Judge Emett C. Choate started his charge to the jury. Implied warranty, explained the judge, only meant that the product must be "reasonably fit and safe for the ordinary purpose for which it was sold." The issue, he continued, was not whether Green died of cigarette-induced cancer; another jury had decided that. This jury was simply to determine whether "a large segment, a responsible segment, a significant number" of smokers were endangered...
Money flowed like ballpark beer. One promising collegian reportedly returned to his dormitory room to find $25,000 in cash laid out neatly on his bed. When the Green Bay Packers lost out to the A.F.L.'s Houston Oilers in the bidding for Baylor End Larry Elkins, Packer Coach Vince Lombardi cracked: "We missed by a couple of hundred thousand." The New York Giants went all the way to $100,000 to land Auburn's rugged (6 ft. 2 in., 221 Ibs.) Tucker Frederickson, the "big back" that Allie Sherman wanted in order to beef up the Giants...
...JEREMY ANDERSON, 43, is a San Francisco sculptor who prefers working in natural-finished wood. He painted the upper reaches of his attenuated Composite Mythology green to harmonize its grain. Hardly shocking when compared with Brancusi, the slender shape looks at once like ephemeral femurs knocking on a knee joint and a pinch-waisted dancer on toe point...