Word: lawsuit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pleas by airline pilots not to do so. A made-for-TV special, it presented a fictional extortion attempt by bomb threat against an airliner in flight. After the show the Federal Aviation Agency recorded a dramatic increase in phone-in bomb threats to airlines. More horrifying was the lawsuit against the same network by a mother who asked for $11 million after her nine-year-old daughter was gang-raped with a beer bottle by three teen-age girls and a boy. The assailants had seen a similar rape of a girl by girls on a TV movie only...
...family tangles that have swirled up around him. The sometimes raucous annual meeting brought together most of the chief protagonists in these dramas. There was, for instance, Henry's rebellious nephew Benson Ford, 29, who was in Detroit not only for the meeting but also to push a lawsuit that is part of his fight to elbow his way onto the Ford board. Also present was Henry's only son Edsel, 30, who is assistant managing director of the company's Australian operation and the only member of the younger generation of Fords now being groomed...
Johnson said that without legal advice he could not predict if it would be feasible to bring a lawsuit against the corporation...
Streeter said he believes Johnson's proposed lawsuit may never be necessary. "The onus is now on the advisory committee to act in a fashion more sympathetic to the obvious views of the MIT community," he added...
Johnson said, however, that if legal action is necessary to force the ACSR to uphold its policy, the lawsuit would probably receive great support from the MIT community...