Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peeves of Bill Buckley's conservative National Review is Linus Pauling, the Nobel-prizewinning biochemist who espouses no end of peace causes and regularly attacks U.S. foreign policy. In a strident article in 1962, the Review accused Pauling of "acting as megaphone for Soviet policy" and lending his "name, energy, voice and pen to one after another Soviet-serving enterprise." A second Review article took note of the number of libel suits brought by Pauling and derided the "brazen attempts at intimidation of the free press by one of the nation's leading fellow travelers...
With that Pauling added the National Review to the list of publications he was suing, and demanded $1,000,000. The case had hardly come to trial last month in New York State Supreme Court when it bogged down. While jurors nodded, Pauling's attorney, Michael Levi Matar, plodded laboriously from one niggling point to the next. He kept Mrs. Pauling on the stand for hours while he led her through long explanations of awards garnered by her husband. He questioned Pauling himself about his beliefs and actions at interminable length. Justice Samuel J. Silverman was visibly irritated...
...merger-minded Litton Industries, each of the 50 divisions draws up an annual "opportunity review," which looks five years ahead at technologies, situations and companies that the firm ought to be getting into. The managers of the fastest-growing firm in U.S. business history judge potential merger mates by three measures, in order of importance: 1) Does the product line fit with ours? 2) Is the management right? 3) Is the price right? One company that seemed made to measure was well-managed and profitable Diebold, Inc., the nation's largest manufacturer of banking equipment, with 1965 sales...
...State Department of Public Works has recommended the Brookline-Elm St. route for the highway. The federal government, which pays 90 per cent of the costs, must now approve the selection. The federal Bureau of Public Roads has assured local officials that it will thoroughly review the state's recommendation, and, if necessary, ask the state DPW for further justification of the selection...
...need for an independent study is clearly indicated by the glaring inadequacies and omission in previous DPW studies, [and] the probable inability of the DPW or any other state agency to objectively review a [highway] system to which the state has been committed for 30 years...