Word: libeler
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When Hiss counterattacked with a libel suit, Chambers finally introduced the charge of espionage, and supported his case with the nearly forgotten documents that he retrieved from his wife's nephew, who had stored them inside an unused dumb-waiter shaft. But even then, Chambers did not produce the microfilm-later he explained that he was afraid it might contain material that would damage other people. With characteristic melodrama, Chambers hid the film roll in a hollowed-out pumpkin in a field on his Maryland farm, surrendered it only when he became convinced that a committee counsel suspected...
...York Times Reporter Harrison Salisbury reported that the city of Birmingham was a smoldering volcano of racial tension, "a community of fear." These and other Salisbury conclusions, published in a two-part series, outraged six Birmingham and neighboring Bessemer city commissioners (plus one police detective), who separately brought libel suits against Salisbury and the Times and asked a total of $3,100,000 in damages. Last week in New Orleans, by holding that a newspaper published in New York City could not be sued for libel in Alabama, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in effect threw all seven...
...case never got far enough along the legal trail for the courts to consider the merits or demerits of the libel action. But in the preliminary skirmishing last summer, Kentucky-born U.S. District Court Judge Harlan Hobart Grooms ruled that the New York Times could be sued in Alabama. It was this decision that was overturned last week by the New Orleans court, which cited a 1921 Alabama Supreme Court decision stating that in newspaper libel cases in Alabama, suit can be filed only where the newspaper is published...
TIME'S article, "Too Many Drugs" (May 26), is a libel of the prescription-drug industry that cannot pass unchallenged...
...This is not a book This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty...what you will...