Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principle, would start with the youngest eligible men rather than with the oldest, as at present. Men are now liable for induction between the ages of 19 and 26. The new system would reduce the seven-year twitch to one. Among men of roughly the same age, the iron rule of oldest first, even if the difference is only a few days, would be removed...
...Supreme Courts of Texas and California both ruled that a bystander injured by a faulty car may sue and collect damages from the car's manufacturer without having to prove negligence (anyone other than the owner or user is generally known in legal shorthand as a bystander). In most earlier cases only owners or users of a faulty vehicle had been exempted from proving negligence on the part of the manufacturer. But in Texas, two passengers in a car hit by a Ford truck with defective brakes were permitted to sue the manufacturer of the truck under the more...
...erect a federal regulatory hurdle for Heineman, Goodrich in March paid about $2.7 million in stock to buy Motor Freight Corp., a Terre Haute-based trucking company that competes with Northwest on some rail routes. Goodrich then petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission, urging it to rule that Northwest would need ICC approval for a merger...
...hours. It is undeniably possible for anyone who wished to avoid this exercise to have someone else turn in coupons for him. Or one could simply turn in a coupon at the IAB for example, and just walk out the door. In no way do P.T.'s enforce the rule...
...Johnny Williams (Nathan George), a black pimp who is as cold and dangerous as a switchblade. His whores saunter in and out between tricks, and the white one loves him. Johnny wants to challenge the Mafia, which is crimping his style, by assembling a "Black Mafia" to rule his own turf. An ex-con father figure who has gone straight (Walter Jones) warns Johnny that he has contracted "Charley fever" -that is, trying to beat the white man at his own game. The fever inevitably proves fatal, and finally the stage is as loaded with corpses as the bloodiest Elizabethan...