Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the mid-1960s, clusters of split-level houses have risen around Paris, looking much like suburban U.S. housing developments. Many have been built by two U.S. companies, Levitt & Sons and Kaufman & Broad. Now an heir of a famous French family is imitating the Levittown builders with great success. He is Maxime Breguet, 29, son of the founder of Breguet Aviation, which built, among many other planes, the Breguet 14 flown by the Lafayette escadrille in World...
Naturally the shareowners and other creditors complained, and Detroit Judge Nathan Kaufman, after listening to the arguments, concluded that "it would be a fraud, any way you look at it, if you set up a trust and people buy an interest and can't get their money." But Christine is not giving up. Her lawyers are considering an appeal on the ruling, and they also were suggesting last week that each claimant may have to prove his case individually. Since some of the 700 shareholders have died and passed their claims on to their inheritors, the proceedings could stretch...
...housewives who long ago made their personal commitments "for better or for worse." But it is clear by now that many of them too, from time to time, are caught up by the cause. To capture the feelings of some of them, at least, TIME turned to Sue Kaufman, wife, mother, and author of Diary of a Mad Housewife, a novel (and later film) that early sounded the tocsin of domestic alarm...
...story illustrates one of the most popular themes in current women's fiction-the way men use women. Customarily the man is seen as pompous, competent in a petty way and callous. Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife, a shrewd and graceful comedy, shows an ambitious lawyer husband telephoning orders to his shaking wife, who has just nearly been mugged, about packing his suitcase: "Have you got a pencil? I want my tan cowhide two-suiter, not the one from Mark Cross, the new one from T. Anthony. Then I'll need two suits...
...March 3, Kaufman sent a letter to Harvard requesting a meeting to discuss cancellation or modification of the plans for the garage, as well as landscaping plans for the area. The letter particularly expressed the tenants' disquiet at being presented with a falt accompli in Harvard's letter of last June...