Word: groundful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jury investigation at the federal courthouse across the street. While representing a client in a sensational card-cheating trial, Cooper illegally "obtained a secret federal grand-jury transcript. Admitting that he had lied in court about how he got the transcript, Cooper refused to divulge his source on the ground that he would violate the attorney-client relationship...
Most Christians, however, oppose the draft, and so do the majority of Beirut businessmen. "We will smash ourselves," says a chain-store manager. "We must not commit suicide. It is best for us and for all the Arabs to have this noninvolved outpost." Many Lebanese agree, on the practical ground that a draft would cost at least $30 million. Editorialized the Beirut Star: "Lebanon realizes that Israel's military might is much stronger than her own. It would take a great deal of money to improve on the situation. Since 1943, we have followed a policy of letting...
Every year, Bowen throws a private golf tournament for 40 or so friends at a local country club. The ground rules require that every player have a drink before playing each hole, and limousines are provided so that nobody has to drive home. Last year, what with the grand prize of a Datsun convertible and all, the tab ran to $10,000. All things considered, old Jimmy has turned out to have a pretty good follow-up act after...
...sewing machine and a pair of pinking shears are the only clues that identify Michele Sapone's ground-floor flat on Nice's Rue de Châteauneuf as a tailor shop. Casual visitors are much more likely to mistake it for an art gallery: about 450 paintings and drawings -many by Europe's best-known contemporary artists - crowd the walls of the waiting room, the workshop, the corridors and even the fitting room. As tailor to more than 100 leading French and Italian artists, Sapone, 56, accepts payment for his clothes in works of art. Says...
Innocent Beauty. Selected by Allen Wardwell, 33, curator of primitive arts at the Art Institute, the comprehensive exhibit shows how the ancient Indian goldsmiths ground, hammered and cast the precious metal into highly stylized objects. Though the innocent beauty of the pieces was lost on the greedy conquistadores, it has intrigued modern artists such as Lipchitz, Moore, Klee, Brancusi and Dubuffet...