Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After smoothly outmaneuvering the legal difficulties that kept him out of New York City, Manhattan's Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 56, still has to pay the $46,500 in libel damages and interest that he has owed a Harlem widow for two years. So, flying back from his $75,000 Puerto Rico beach house, Powell put the whammy on his Harlem friends. After explaining his plight to the congregation at his Abyssinian Baptist Church, he toured the nightspots, drumming up guests for one of his $25-a-head "Justice for Powell" cocktail parties, which have helped to raise...
...Spiegel. The fault is not entirely his. Spiegel's publisher, Rudolf Augstein, worried that a good C.S.U. showing next fall might land the former Defense Minister back in the Cabinet, has hammered ceaselessly at Strauss's alleged "corruption" in office, until Strauss retaliated last summer with a libel suit...
Next day Shawn called Whitney again, asking him not to print the story. He also placed a total of four calls to Trib Editor James Bellows and rang up other editors, hinting of a libel suit or an injunction. Then he tried to phone Whitney again. Instead, Shawn got Whitney's wife Betsey, whom he lectured about the Trib's irresponsible journalism...
Rusher welcomed the new crop of Southern Republicans fertilized by the Goldwater candidacy. "I reject the libel that they're rabid segregtionists," he said. "That's a very artistic smear being cultivated by the Northern liberals...
...flight from Manila. Covering the war for Collier's, Reynolds poured his romantic Irish heart into vivid, highly personal combat reports from North Africa to Dieppe, winning high praise from such fans as Winston Churchill and such scorn from Columnist Westbrook Pegler that he won a $175,001 libel judgment from...