Word: marvins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marvin E. Lewis, 71, is a flamboyant trial lawyer famous in San Francisco courts for winning highly unusual personal injury cases. He once persuaded a jury to award $50,000 to a woman who claimed that the trauma of a cable-car crash had turned her into a nymphomaniac. But never did Lewis come up with a more novel argument-or one with more profound implications-than in the case of Olivia Niemi...
...increasing his saving, waiting for the proverbial rainy day that invariably follows a period of rising prices. But the consumer seems to be becoming more like a Latin American, who spends out of fear that he had better buy it now or it will only cost more tomorrow. Says Marvin Brenner, owner of the Casual Village women's clothing chain in New Orleans: "People know that there will be another minimum wage hike in January, and it will cause wages to go up all along the line. The minimum wage very quickly affects clothing prices, so people are buying...
...political divorces can be messy, Talmadge soon learned, as have others -former Governor Marvin Mandel of Maryland, Governor George Wallace of Alabama and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts.* Last August, Talmadge revealed in a deposition that it had long been his practice to accept pocket money, clothing and lodging from friends. In fact, he had written only one check for cash in six years. Says he: "Wherever I go, people entertain me, lodge me, give me small amounts of money. My out-of-pocket expenses come from donations friends give me-$5, a $10 bill, sometimes...
...Celts get money players Nate Archibald, Marvin Barnes and Billy Knight--albeit, with a lot of question marks--while San Diego gets a good deal in terms of quantity, but little in the way of first-rate quality...
...call Joe Kraft pretentious, in a capital that also contains Marvin Kalb of CBS, is surprising. Ambitious might be a better word for the hard-working Kraft. He aspires to be as wide-ranging as Walter Lippmann once was but lacks Lippmann's rumbling, reflective authority. He gets around as Lippmann never did. Kraft can dispose of Jerry Brown one day, the Federal Reserve or neutron bomb the next, argue in another column that Carter follows "a policy of divine misguidance" (he has from the beginning condescended to Carter), then emplane to the Horn of Africa to see things...