Word: suede
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, Cher kept putting down Sonny on their TV show. Then Sonny sued for a legal separation. Cher countersued, claiming she was sold into "involuntary servitude" to Sonny by a craftily written contract. Now Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour producers are having their downer. The show's rationale, the...
> What recourse do prisoners have when penal discipline goes too far? As punishment for making "noise after hours," three prisoners in the Baltimore city jail were strung up naked from handcuffs, and a fourth inmate was badly beaten when he resisted similar treatment. The quartet sued their jailers for damages...
At 78, Jack Dempsey is still not a man to count out, as his landlords have learned. It seems that the Inch Corp., a real-estate holding company, bought the building that houses Jack Dempsey's restaurant, a Broadway landmark for tourists and the prizefight crowd, in 1967. Since...
Died. Richardson Dilworth, 75, two-time Democratic mayor of Philadelphia from 1955-62; of a malignant brain tumor; in Philadelphia. A brilliant lawyer who served in the Marine Corps in World Wars I and II, Dilworth mounted vitriolic attacks against Republicans who had controlled and corrupted city hall since 1884...
The fired faculty members view the situation in a somewhat different light. "I feel as though I'm being sued for no damn reason other than that I'm being fired," says Robert R. Harrell, a tenured associate professor of English and one of the six defendants. As...