Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Will Fight." Whether or not his mood was affected by the military success, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky seemed to be in a freer and firmer state of mind about the political picture. Clad in a canary-yellow flight suit and sipping Jim Beam bourbon from a paper cup, he held an impromptu press conference at the Mekong Delta town of Can Tho. Ky said it would be at least a year before the new civilian government demanded by the Buddhists could be legally elected-and added that he expected to remain in power for that period. "Elections for a constituent...
...widow's late husband, Yale Law School Professor Fowler V. Harper, charging four years ago in his National Review that Harper had given "aid and comfort" to Communist causes by lending his name to a Viet Nam protest petition. Harper died last year before his $500,000 libel suit against Buckley was resolved, but his widow pressed on. Finally, Buckley put the matter to rest by settling for $13,750 in New York State Supreme Court, thus clearing the decks for the next big hassle. Nobel Prizewinner Linus Pauling, labeled a "fellow traveler" by the Review, reported that...
Since Sellers was working while golfing, Walsh sued both him and his company for $250,000, claiming that Sellers had negligently failed to wipe his hands before swinging, causing the club to slip. In answer, Sellers moved to have the suit dismissed on a seemingly unassailable ground: anyone who ventures on a golf course "assumes the risk of being struck by a ball" and is thus barred from seeking damages...
...spring. You must go in there with tension, and you should end up feeling worn out." Once onstage, Schorske gestures, grins, whispers, employs the full range of a booming baritone voice. He covers three centuries of European intellectual history in his most popular course, shifts spontaneously to suit the mood of his audience ("It's almost a cabaret thing") as he explores Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Mill, Marx and Freud. "He inspires an awful lot of hero worship from extremely bright people," says sandaled Coed Regina Janes...
Moving its annual meeting into the Southwest for the first time, IBM last week gathered its stockholders in Houston. The news they heard from the world's leading computer maker was more than big enough to suit the occasion. Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. first announced that the company is about to split its stock for the tenth time, this time on a 3-2 basis. Moreover, announced Watson, IBM next month will issue another 1,300,000 shares worth $350 million, will give stockholders first opportunity to buy them. The offering will be the largest underwriting...