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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This first happened when Cranmer introduced his then modern-language prayer book in 1549. All the reasons given against the 1979 book-"it's poor English, it's not traditional, it's poor theology"-were first used in opposition to Cranmer's book. Plus ça change, plus c'est la méme chose...
Ackerman expects to work the ship with a small crew, two professional deck hands, a cook and one or two apprentices, plus himself as captain. She has no engine, but will carry a 15-ft. boat with a diesel that can serve to nose her up to a dock or through a narrow channel. Because of the Leavitt's shallow draft (6½ ft.), she has a big advantage in direct loading and unloading of cargo that originates near the water. Ackerman's first load will be 150 tons of lumber and building materials being shipped from Quincy...
...Fine, that'll be $800 plus...
...mind," every potential juror who did not want to sit through the Memorex case was excused. There were 118 in all. In many long cases, anyone who cannot get away from work for months at a time or who earns more than jury duty pays-$30 a day plus some extras-will opt out. That leaves, says Stanford Law School Professor William Baxter, juries of "the old, the jobless and the poor." At the 14-month trial of SCM vs. Xerox, a $1.5 billion antitrust suit, the jurors' average education level was tenth grade...
...brick walls live such celebrities as Lauren Bacall, Roberta Flack, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who own some 28 rooms throughout the Dakota and who once held a séance to commune with departed tenants. Other famous occupants have included Leonard Bernstein, Judy Holliday and Boris Karloff, plus several purported house ghosts. The Dakota is just the haunt, then, for Stephen Birmingham, who has made a living off the rich ("Our Crowd," The Right People. The Grandees) and famous (Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis...