Word: jumboes
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...breed bitter resentment. "Lawyers have become secular priests," says Fred Button, a White House aide in the Kennedy Administration and now a successful Washington, D.C., attorney. They are, agrees Berkeley Law Dean Sanford Kadish, masters of "a mysterious art form to which the layman is not privy, with mumbo jumbo going on." The heart of the art, of course, is the impenetrable language that lawyers use, sometimes at great length (a direct outgrowth of the English practice of paying lawyers by the word for their briefs, which were, as a result, rarely brief...
...battle left Braniff stranded. On March 1, it flew a 747 loaded with celebrities to Britain for what it had planned as a gala inauguration of its new run be tween London and Dallas-Fort Worth. The Life Guards band turned out at Gatwick airport to serenade the orange jumbo jet with The Yellow Rose of Texas. But the British government would not let Braniff fly passengers back to the U.S. at the new low fares, and the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board refused to let Braniff charge the high fares. Result: the plane flew back with its nonpaying passengers...
Harvard's big forwards took out their heavy artillery and provided the fire power propelling the women's basketball team to a 71-39 thrashing of Tufts last night in the Jumbo's Medford arena...
Alternating between a player-to-player and a zone defense, Harvard contained the Jumbo attack in the first half, but the Crimson women had their own trouble against the Tufts player-to-player defense...
...lanky center Debbie Kochsk who finished with 12 points, Tufts remained close in the first half, and trailed, 33-23, at the half. But Harvard went to town against a Jumbo fullcourt zone press in the second half...