Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roger, under the some-time guidance of employer Miles Maleson, first loses a cinch divorce suit, then wins dismissal of a confidence man on a technicality, and finally returns as a substitute counsel to his own village in a slander trial. He wins, and from the public gallery his father leads the home-town parish in applause...
...Reading from a paper that he and Attorney General Brownell had drawn up, the President noted that: 1) local, not federal, authorities have the responsibility for drawing up school integration plans; 2) local authorities and federal courts-not the President-have the job of setting the desegregation timetable to suit the Supreme Court dictum of desegregation "with all deliberate speed," but 3) a desegregation order from a federal court "must be obeyed" by state officials, and the specific powers of a state governor "may not be used" to defeat a valid federal court order. Narrowing down to the Southern governors...
...part suit Switzerland demanded that the U.S. either return General Aniline to the Swiss Interhandel holding company that ran it until 1942 or submit the case to an international panel of arbiters. The U.S. in the past has refused arbitration. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has been talking a lot lately about the rule of law in international affairs, but last week the Department said it will not decide whether it will let the case go to the World Court until after it is formally served with a copy of the suit...
...Dylan "blew out" is a question that has fueled his funeral pyre for the last four years. The argument ranges from Fellow Poet Kenneth Rexroth's ardently silly blast at U.S. conformity ("Who killed the bright-headed bird? . . . You killed him in your God damned Brooks Brothers suit") to Fellow Poet John Malcolm Brinnin's vulgarly detailed but more plausible notion (Dylan Thomas in America) that drink and lechery did Dylan in. Caitlin blames America, too, in a different...
...White Suit is an excellent piece of work, sure to become established as a classic, and the most fetching entertainment to hit Cambridge in a long time...