Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shaping into a test case; Miss Buchanan's defense is in something less than the best tradition of the courageous press, and District Attorney Frye's prosecution is less than a paragon of justice. Buchanan is reported as having said that she will appeal the case to stall for time (the appeal should take about a year) and if she is still required to come up with the names at that time, she will be perfectly willing to reveal her sources. "A year from now people won't be around and I'll be through with school." Someone should have...
...scholastic tendency has hit trivia. Edwin Goodgold and Dan Carlinsky alphabetized all the major trivialities and arranged them so that you can't see the answer without having the person in the next stall at Lamont know you're cheating. A special twenty-question section for the connoisseur, even asks you to name Milton Berle's mother. (No, not Mrs. Berle.) A reading period necessity published by Dell for only fifty cents...
Replying to the French eviction notice, the U.S. made it clear that it will need more time to move than De Gaulle wants to give and that, if necessary, it will stall and haggle to get it. Principally drafted by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who two weeks ago called De Gaulle's view of the NATO alliance "utter nonsense," the reply's first version was so strong that Lyndon Johnson winced at it, sent it back to be given a milder tone...
...home, which seemed to preoccupy Washington last week, the U.S.'s most stubborn economic problem of 1966 is proving to be its eight-year-old balance of payments deficit. Directly or indirectly, that deficit-the excess of dollars spent abroad over dollars earned there-has already helped stall negotiations for world monetary reform, caused U.S. corporations to invade the European market for dollar bonds, prompted Charles de Gaulle to keep cashing in France's dollars for U.S. gold at a $33 million-a-month clip. Last week the Administration got more bad news: imports are climbing so fast...
...Duke: an incredible 21-20 basketball victory over North Carolina in the semifinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference's playoffs; at Raleigh, N.C. Hoping to upset the No. 3-ranked Blue Devils, who have averaged 86 points a game, North Carolina went into a deliberate stall, thus producing one of the lowest scoring games in years...