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...problems as the germs about which he constantly worries. In 1973, after a twelve-year court fight, he finally upset a $180 million judgment against him for allegedly mismanaging TWA, and he is currently being sued by his former chief lieutenant, Robert Maheu, for $17 million on grounds of libel...
...large blocks of stock were owned by Greenspun and Crockett. According to the indictment, Maheu urged Crockett to sell his Air West holdings, assuring him that he would be "made whole" for any losses. Similarly, according to pretrial testimony in the Maheu libel case, Greenspun was assured by an associate of Maheu that "Mr. Hughes isn't going to let you get caught holding the bag" by selling Air West stock at a low price. Around Dec. 31, 1968, the Government charges, Crockett, Greenspun and Charnay unloaded 46,000 snares of Air West stock, or slightly more than...
Died. James Wallace (Wally) Butts, 68, coach of the University of Georgia's football teams from 1939 to 1960 and winner of one of the largest libel judgments ($3,060,000) in American history; of a heart attack; in Athens, Ga. Butts, a stern, demanding field commander, led his teams to eight bowl games and four Southeastern Conference championships. When a 1963 article in the Saturday Evening Post charged Butts and Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant with rigging the results of the 1962 Alabama-Georgia game, Butts took his case all the way to the Supreme Court, which eventually...
When the results were tabulated and published, eight principals earned "outstanding" marks, eight were termed "good," four were judged "poor" and two luckless educators brought up the rear as "unsuited." One of those two, Fred L. Dunn Jr., slapped the Sentinel with a $21 million libel suit, later reduced to $15 million...
...What prompted His Sublime Highness's anger, however, was something quite simple. Fallaci had asked him if it were true that he had reverted to harem, taking another wife in addition to his third official one, Empress Farah, 35. Said the Shah: "A stupid, vile, disgusting libel...