Word: reimer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...household. The husband is a low-wage railroad worker already supporting five children. He blamed the local pharmacist, who had misread the handwriting on Frau Knack's prescription, for the birth of Thomas. Arguing that the error would strain the family budget, the Knacks took Pharmacy Owner Hans Reimer to court to recover damages...
...Reimer's attorney argued that "a child is not a liability, but rather a joyous event. A child is an asset that brings happiness fully compensating for any material damages." Last month a court in Schleswig-Holstein disagreed. While declaring that the Knacks had "a general responsibility to check what they bought," the court ruled that Reimer was negligent and ordered him to pay half the cost of the boy's upbringing until Thomas reaches 18. "Grotesque," said Reimer's attorney about the decision, which appeared to be the first of its kind either in West Germany...
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY Ludwig Erhard, LL.D., Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. Man of full dedication, honest realism, wise moderation and quiet conciliation, staunch and good friend of America. Alva Reimer Myrdal, L.H.D. Swedish educator, sociologist, public official and wife of Economist Gunnar Myrdal...
...Times has been as good as Reimer's word. In one movie ad, the picture of a couple in passionate horizontal embrace was rotated 90° and ran vertically in the Times-in compliance with the paper's upright code. Another ad filled with misspelled suggestion ran in the Times one day-and was censored the next. Copy plugging a movie title, The Cave Girls, read "See What the Girls Did 50,000 B.C. (Before Clothes) (Costumes by Mother Nature)"-but only in Hearst's Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. In the Times the ad came...
Reader complaints about movie ads were a principal reason for the Times's purer code. "We are convinced that moral and social values have not decayed as frequently portrayed," Reimer told advertisers, "and we trust that together we can find a better standard of values in the area of 'good taste...