Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LAWSUIT THREAT against TWA finally forced Howard Hughes to turn over control, of his 78% of TWA stock to a banking and insurance-company trust. In return, he got loans totaling $165 million to pay for 20 Convair 880 jets. TWA will raise an additional $100 million through a public issue to buy 17 Boeing 707 jets now leased from the Hughes Tool...
...center of all the excitement in New Orleans last week, School Superintendent James F. Redmond appeared in court to face a lawsuit. He had refused to release the names of children in integrated schools. Why? Redmond's answers were polite, professional. His lawyer was not satisfied. Said he: "Isn't it a fact, Dr. Redmond, that you told me you'd be hanged and quartered before you would hand over the names of those little girls?", Answered Redmond with a smile: "Yes, I suppose...
...Hahn's family life, Ralph Edwards also failed to note that Hahn had filed a divorce suit against her, and that early this year Mrs. Hahn had haled her own daughter into a magistrate's court as a delinquent. Last week Hahn filed a $500,000 lawsuit against the National Broadcasting Company, alleging invasion of privacy because his name and portrait had been used without his consent. "The humiliation," he says, "it was terrible. My wife, she's off her mind...
...more than 1,000 songs, makes a specialty of trying to turn headlines into hits. He has written remarkably tasteless salutes to the memories of Amelia Earhart, Floyd Collins and Emmett Till, and he still cannot understand why a ballad about Evangelist Billy Graham prompted threats of a lawsuit (sample lyrics: "To the hills of North Carolina/ Where the Smokies dot the land/ God sent a new boy baby/ And he called him Billy Graham"). Fourteen years ago, McEnery also achieved some slight notoriety by handcuffing himself to a piano and writing 52 original songs in eight hours without getting...
...public interest and necessity,'' i.e., to give it another subsidy. Outside of bankruptcy, one obvious possibility is merger with other airlines. Both Delta and Northwest could use sections of Capital's routes, but the big carriers are sitting it out until Capital clears up its lawsuit with Planemaker Vickers and settles its management troubles. Among other things, Stockholder Murchison has been trying to oust Capital's Chairman George Hann, 71, and take over for himself (TIME, April 25). At last week's meeting. Chairman Hann stepped down. Yet Murchison was apparently unable to convince...