Word: libeller
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Negligence and bias is one thing; slander is another. You have now gone past the acceptable limits. Were I Samuel Huntington, I would sue you for libel. Were I one of the University's Administrators, I would take whatever steps necessary to make sure you made no further offenses of this nature John Jensen, New York City
...sure, Fielding uses the Guide to praise his friends and publicize his prejudices. He has been sued 39 times for libel, but has lost only once, when he had to pay $3,800 to taxi operators he called "the biggest crooks and racketeers in Europe." Even friendship is no insurance against a Fielding knock if an establishment goes sour. But he knocks in the pained tones of an evangelist trying to persuade a fallen woman to return to the flock...
...pretty fair jailhouse lawyer," Battle noted. Ray may also receive professional help. Last week he wrote to his previous defender, Arthur J. Hanes. Then Lawyer J. B. Stoner of Savannah, Ga., a lifelong anti-Negro and anti-Semitic agitator, announced that he would represent Ray in several libel suits...
...mass demonstrations before the French embassy in Tel Aviv. One poster showed a De Gaulle-nosed poodle sniffing a mongrel sporting an Arab headdress. The caption: HE SMELLS OIL. In the Knesset, Premier Levi Eshkol condemned France's expressed reasons for the embargo (Israeli "aggression") as a "mendacious libel...
...dealed, and managed to shore up Curtis' finances for a while. He installed Clay Blair Jr. as editor in chief of the Post; Blair's "sophisticated muckraking" changed the character of the magazine and made for lively reading, but it also led to at least six libel suits. The Post's last hope was 36-year-old Corporation Lawyer Martin Ackerman, whose 1962 merger of four firms to create Perfect Film & Chemical Corp. showed his knack for healing sick companies...