Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Martin socked Cubs Pitcher Jim Brewer solidly enough to inspire a $1 million lawsuit. "How does he want it?" Billy asked, starting to get into the spirit of the thing. "Cash or green stamps?" By the end of the '60s, Martin was an itinerant manager batting out minor club officials and bespectacled traveling secretaries with either hand. Outside a Detroit bar, he flattened one of his own players, Dave Boswell, and began moving up through the ranks of bantamweight sportswriters and marshmallow salesmen to unidentified phantoms...
...began with an eleven-page complaint over the alleged violation of an arcane bit of copyright law. But by last week it was clear to the computer industry that the federal lawsuit filed by Apple Computer against Microsoft, a leading U.S. software firm, and Hewlett-Packard, a major electronics company, could be just the opening salvo in a monumental legal battle. The dispute pits two of the best-known figures in the industry against each other: John Sculley, 49, president of Apple; and Bill Gates, 32, chairman of Microsoft. It also seems calculated to derail the plans...
There are also some troubles in paradise. Lawyers for Conde Nast's Traveler will be appearing in Manhattan federal court this week to respond to a lawsuit by National Geographic's quarterly Traveler charging that the overall appearance of Evans' magazine is strikingly similar to National Geographic's publication. At Trips, Ziegler denies that hard times in the parent clothing chain will trim the magazine's sails. And industry analysts still wonder if the market can soak up so many go-go competitors -- particularly since travel- related companies put only one-fifth of their ad budgets into travel magazines...
Last week Lord Carnarvon announced that the treasures will go on public view at Highclere. Who squirreled them away? No one knows, but it seems that the sixth Earl Carnarvon, son of the man who entered Tut's tomb, was furious after he lost a lawsuit in 1924 against the Egyptian government for a half share of the crypt's riches. Miffed, the aristocrat forbade any mention of Egypt...
Bill Henning, a member of Yale's all-male Skull and Bones society, said one of the reasons Scroll and Key may have decided to accept women was that they were the most vulnerable to a lawsuit and that it will have little influence on the remaining all-male societies...