Word: linens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dirty Linen. But attitudes toward extramarital sex have changed, and the depths to which lawyers will go to discredit an opponent's client have become increasingly distasteful. Most important of all has been the growing obviousness of the inequities that were being wrought. Says New York Judge Samuel Hofstadter: "Many deserving women get too little, and others less deserving get too much." To him, guilt is a clearly outmoded concept in divorce. Besides, he points out, "in probably 90% of all cases, neither spouse is at fault, or both may be to some degree...
...where the law forbids payment of alimony to a woman who has been divorced on grounds of her adultery, judges often overlook perfectly well-documented adultery charges and grant the divorce for extreme cruelty so that alimony may be assigned to a woman who needs it. When the dirty linen starts to be aired, says Miami Judge Lawrence King, "I just click my mind off and don't even listen to their arguments." Agrees his local colleague, Judge Lee: "I try to make them understand that there is no reason to try to convince me of what an S.O.B...
Time Inc. President James A. Linen stressed his company's interest in the city of Newark. "In spite of recent problems of racial conflict and urban blight," he said, "we have been most impressed with the community's remarkable spirit and resiliency. In keeping with the Newark News's tradition of community service, we hope and believe that we can make a significant contribution to the city's growth and well-being...
...skeletons are now being run at the University of Arkansas Medical Center. But even when they are completed, warned Governor Rockefeller, details of the investigation will be withheld from the public until a full state-police report is compiled. There is no point, he said, in "washing dirty linen for weeks on end as each body...
...book publishers. Little, Brown's 64 stockholders will receive 170,000 shares of Time Inc. stock (current value: about $16.5 million) in a tax-free transaction. "We are delighted to be joining forces with so highly respected a firm as Little, Brown," said Time Inc. President James A. Linen. "We have no doubt whatsoever that in its new association with Time Inc., Little, Brown will continue to make increasingly important contributions in the book publishing field...