Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost a guarantee that the paper would be bought and the story read to the last word. The trick was a familiar one to British readers, wise to the ways of the brazen innuendo, the veiled hints of Fleet Street's popular press. Hemmed in by archaic libel laws, the scandal sheets are almost always read for the information they do not actually print-the stories that are suggested by the juxtaposition of columns or a long headline that just happens to run across the accounts of two otherwise unconnected events. All the Mirror really had to say about...
...appear as a witness last March in the trial of a jealous Negro lover who had tried to shoot her, questions were finally raised in Parliament. Macmillan asked for action, admittedly hoping for a statement from Profumo that would quell further rumors in the press through fear of libel. When the House adjourned after midnight, Profumo was awakened, and at 1:30 a.m. came to Chief Tory Whip Martin Redmayne's Commons office with his solicitor. He was confronted by Redmayne, Tory Chairman Iain Macleod, Minister without Portfolio William Deedes, Attorney General Sir John Hobson and Solicitor General...
...there were editors and M.P.'s who knew by now that he had lied, and Profumo showed himself both arrogant and stupid in thinking that he could suppress the truth indefinitely by libel suits. (In fact, he sued Paris-Match for libel and collected out of court from Italy's Tempo Illustrato).) Besides, Ward began to talk, and to Labor M.P. George Wigg he unfolded a tale, as Wilson described it in the Commons, that "took the lid off a corner of the London underworld-vice and dope, marijuana, blackmail and counter-blackmail, violence, petty crime." Added Wilson...
...years, was the longest, most expensive (estimated cost: $140,000) and most sensational in Scottish history. And it may not be over, since the duchess has said that she plans to appeal the court's verdict. In any case, she still faces charges of libel and conspiracy to sustain a malicious charge of adultery, stemming from her own divorce petition against the duke, which she dropped last May. In that suit, she accused her husband of committing adultery with her stepmother...
There is a slight possibility that Soc Sci 7, a course dealing with the role ot law in England and America and focusing on libel laws and segregation in past years, might be returned to the curriculum. Mark DeWolfe Howe, professor of Law, taught the class, however, and said last night that heavy teaching duties at the Law School would probably prevent him from taking it again next year...