Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unanimous Acquittal. The trial in Clearwater's state circuit court lasted six weeks. Judge Victor O. Wehle directed acquittal verdicts for both U.S. Rubber and the local Corvair dealer, thus leaving G.M. the sole defendant. He instructed the jurors to hold the company up to a standard of strict liability-meaning that G.M. would be held responsible if the car had any inherent defect. After deliberating for 13 hours, the Clearwater jurors unanimously acquitted...
Farmers were asked to vote between a $2-a-bu. support price coupled with strict, mandatory quantitative controls (Cochrane's plan) or no program at all -and, warned Freeman, "$1 wheat." Shuman fired the opening shot at a Farm Bureau convention in Atlanta before the referendum, said that Washington seemed "determined to either rule or ruin American agriculture." Who, he asked, "will run the farms of America? Will it be the farmers or political bureaucrats?" The clincher...
...Edouard Jeanneret to a family of Swiss watchmakers, Le Corbusier adopted one of his mother's family names as an artistic signature and set out to become an architect and painter. He embraced the cult of purism, an art style so puritani cal that it purged even the strict geometries of cubism of any traces of anecdote or decoration. And he became a student of Auguste Perret, the pioneer of building with reinforced concrete. Two years after meeting Léger, Le Corbusier turned out a slim, cocksure manifesto entitled Towards a New Architecture - as though he had decided...
...million idiots), TV time is now so highly prized that spots are usually limited to 15 seconds each or to "crawl along" slogans that slither along the bottom of the tube even as the program goes on. Though Japanese pain-killer commercials are forbidden by Japan's strict food and drug laws to show pain and happiness in the same sequence, these same ads have helped television ad revenues to double to $300 million in three years...
Like every other U.S. manufacturer, General Motors confronts a new legal threat called "strict liability" - the fast-developing doctrine that a manufac turer may be held liable for consumer injuries without being proved guilty of negligence in the manufacturing proc ess (TIME, Aug. 6). Strict liability lurks behind hundreds of pending suits that claim that the rear axle of G.M.'s 1960-1963 Corvairs caused oversteering and sometimes fatal accidents. But last week G.M. won the first of those suits - and in California, where the doctrine of strict liability is well established. In San Jose, G.M. successfully de fended...