Word: libeling
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...President, after telling reporters he would not discuss politics, proceeded to say that it was "a libel on the American people" to presume that they would not accept a black vice-presidential nominee. The President's reproachful tone suggested the improbable-that he would be happy to have a black for a running mate. He also noted that similar views were once uttered about Roman Catholics and proven baseless by John Kennedy. Nixon said that it was "very important for those of us in positions of leadership not to tell a large number of people in America, whoever they...
...defendant in a civil suit over the splitting of legal fees and is also under federal indictment on a conspiracy charge in the same case, which is to be tried in January. As if that were not enough litigation, the retrial of Alioto's $12.5 million libel suit against Look magazine-which accused him of having business associations with mobsters -comes up in December. If the court action hurts his present career, he can always turn to the violin, which he plays with distinction...
...Time-Life News Service as a correspondent based in Seattle, and came to TIME in 1955. He soon quit because of "an eerie feeling I was in the wrong place," but returned in 1957. For five years he wrote the magazine's Education section. After surviving a libel suit arising from one of his stories, Shnayerson proposed a Law section for TIME.* He soon became the section's shepherd and one of the most respected legal affairs writers in the country. Appointed a senior editor in 1967, Shnayerson handled TIME'S Essay section for almost two years...
Based on a libel suit that the author actually faced in England over a sentence in his third novel, Exodus, the book pits a Gentile Polish doctor, Adam Kelno, against a famous American Jewish novelist, Abe Cady. During World War II Dr. Kelno was forced to practice medicine in the infamous Jadwiga concentration camp. He sues Cady for libel because of a sentence that strayed into Cady's blockbuster novel, The Holocaust, which casually charges Kelno with performing "15,000 or more experimental operations without use of anesthesia." The surgery involved sterilization and mutilation of sexual organs. After setting...
...emerges, finally, as the shining avenger of Jewish wrongs, despite the fact that he is technically guilty of libel since the number of Kelno's crimes did not approach 15,000 and Abe, who cannot recall the doctor at all when charged, does not even know how that pesky sentence got into his book in the first place...