Word: libelants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Miss King termed Weaver's arrest part of a "purge" of rights workers by the Canton authorities. She noted that every one of the 20-odd CORE and SNCC workers in Canton had been jailed since Jan. 22 on charges varying from publishing libel to burning trash without a permit. Ball in every case was very high, she said. For disturbing the peace...
...football game. Bryant also remembered an earlier Post article claiming that he taught "excessively rough football." Last week the Post's parent Curtis Publishing Co. took a long step toward relieving "Bear" Bryant's gloom. It handed him $300,000 in settlement of two libel actions against the Post...
...compensatory damages-direct payment for the anguish, the loss of salary and the loss of face in the football community that he may have suffered because of the Post's accusations. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service does not consider such payments taxable, although punitive damages in libel cases-damages assessed as fines against the libeler but paid to the libeled person-are taxed as regular income...
...such cases, critics customarily use the word "derivative," which is a libel proof way of saying that the author's best skill is burglary. But there is no intentional theft here. Baker's book is his own; its mistakes and its successes have edges too rough to have been cut by imitation. The author is in the ridiculous position of a man who, in all good faith, has written a good, sound, playable five act tragedy about a Scandinavian prince whose father has just been murdered by his uncle...
...case was being tried in the small town of Okanogan, Wash. (pop. 2,001), but it had a big-city price tag: the plaintiffs asked $225,000 damages for libel and conspiracy. The cast of characters read like the line-up for a movie: an admitted ex-Communist, an organizer for the John Birch Society, two former state legislators (one a Democrat, the other Republican) and a dapper weekly newspaper publisher. Bit parts were to be played by a Hollywood star and an ex-U.S. Senator...