Word: minn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul, Minn., judge ruled last week that a divorcee who thought she had paid off a $625 bill for electrical work by sleeping with the contractor still owed him $377, plus interest and court costs, because the sex was "performed for the enjoyment of both parties." Besides, Judge Ronald Hachey suggested unchivalrously, the woman's favors may not have been worth all that much. "Unfortunately," he said, "there was no testimony to help the court with respect to the going rate charged by those engaged in one of the oldest professions known to mankind." Hachey went on to note...
Vietnamese family ties are extraordinarily strong. "If you don't have a family, how can you live?" asks Le Minn Tan, 44, spokesman for 207 Fort Chaffee refugees who have decided to apply to return to Viet Nam. "We will never come back to the U.S., even if the V.C. say they will kill us. The men say that one day here is like one year in Viet...
...surprisingly Western-style savvy. The Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G.) has required the estimated 127 journalists in Saigon, including 27 from Communist nations, to register and pick up credentials. Otherwise it has allowed them and their Vietnamese stringers to roam freely around the city, now unofficially designated as Ho Chi Minn City. Carefully attentive, the P.R.G. has permitted Western reporters, including the eight Americans on hand for United Press International, the Associated Press, and the NBC and CBS television networks-to hold onto their rooms at the Continental Palace and other choice hotels. Along with the P.R.G. troops, the newsmen...
...said yesterday that his latest publication, the book. "The American Condition," is scholarly. He also noted his stint in 1967-68 as a visiting professor of public affairs at MIT, a job he resigned from in 1968 to work in the presidential campaign of Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D. Minn...
...North-South border who was head of the Viet Cong's armed forces during the war (TIME, May 5). Tra introduced the eleven-member military administration committee that will direct Saigon's return to normality. In his speech, delivered beneath a huge picture of Ho Chi Minn, Tra praised the "fierce anti-American spirit" of the South Vietnamese and promised leniency toward those who had worked for the old government...