Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. With explosive passion, Nicol Williamson plays John Osborne's London solicitor who is resentful of being remade in the image of the 20th century computer...
Barrientos tried to be understanding about the defection of his friend and chief assistant: "He claimed to be a Marxist, and I tried to convert that into Bolivian nationalism." Though he flew off to London at week's end-the Argentines and the Peruvians had refused him a visa-Arguedas professed a willingness to return to Bolivia and "confront the responsibilities inherent in the deed that I committed." Barrientos at first considered his favorite resort in times of stress: a flight into the hinterlands to talk with the Indian campesinos, who provide much of his popular support...
...evidence. A new trial was then held, with a larger jury. If the new jury agreed with the judge, the original jurors could '"themselves be imprisoned and their wives and children thrust out of doors." That highhanded custom ended in 1670, when Edward Bushell and his fellow London jurors stubbornly refused to find Quakers William Penn and William Mead guilty of preaching to an unlawful assembly. The jurors were jailed, but at their subsequent trial they established the right to differ with the judge without incurring punishment...
...lost with intelligence, sincerity, style, imagination and enormous diligence in Wyoming, Monte Carlo, London, Australia and Hyderabad. His projects included cattle raising, real estate, mining, political advocacy, and remunerative marriage, as well as occasional casino gambling. Frequently the odds against losing seemed insuperable, but Frewen always beat the odds...
...Buffalo Bill Cody, and become manager of a cattle empire capitalized at $1.5 million. In 1884, his sixth year in Wyoming, his Powder River company declared a dividend of 24%. The next year, however, a combination of bad weather, rustlers, homesteaders and an obtuse board of directors in London started the company on a long slide toward worthlessness. Frewen, forbidden as manager to sell his shares, came out with nothing but debts...