Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the Merrell Co. was on trial with three of its former executives and parent Richardson-Merrell Inc. on twelve counts of supplying FDA with "false, fictious and fraudulent" data. After first pleading not guilty, the companies and the executives switched their pleas to nolo contendere (no contest) on eight counts. After Federal Judge Matthew M. McGuire made sure that each defendant understood that the new plea was "tantamount to a plea of guilty," the Justice Department dropped the four remaining counts. It is now up to Judge McGuire to fix the sentences. For the companies, fines could total...
...most dependable lieutenants, has the best chance of becoming Deputy Prime Minister. He is an honest, inoffensive politician with the smallest number of political enemies. Nehru will probably cling to the title of Prime Minister, but it was Shastri whom he summoned after his illness with the plea: "Please help me. You will have to carry on my work...
...week's end, with their grapefruit-league schedule well under way, the hustling Yankees had four wins in eight games, were showing only flashes of midseason form. Manager Berra was copping his first plea. "Just in case we lose a few and you guys want to know why," he grumped, "we ain't playing to win down here...
...Papal Plea. With European consumers clamoring for goods faster than farms or factories can produce them, prices have been soaring in almost every country. Last year they rose 4% in the Benelux nations, 6% in France, 7% in Italy. They are still climbing. Such worried leaders as German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro warn that continued inflation may ruin Europe's economy by weakening its currencies and shutting off its world markets. Even Pope Paul, in an unusual message last month, took note of Italy's inflationary spiral by recommending austerity both because...
Richard H. Ullman '55, Aliston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House and a member of the committee, said yesterday that the response to its plea for suggestions from undergraduates had been disappointing. He said suggestions should be sent to committee chairman Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty for Resources and Planning, in University Hall...