Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blows, distortion and invective, Vidal is the clear-cut winner in the Esquire phase of the Buckley-Vidal vendetta. In fact, Buckley last week widened his sights and filed a new $1,000,000 libel suit, this one against Esquire...
...Papadouspolos filed four suits--against the co-sponsors, against Harvard, which lent the Stadium for the concerts, and against Edward S. Gruson, assistant to the President for Community Relations, who arranged the loan of the facility. The suits against cosponsors and Harvard were thrown out yesterday; a hearing has not yet been held on the suit filed against Gruson...
Notice of the suits was served yesterday on the parties concerned. The notice merely specified that it was a suit for slander, without listing details of the charges or the amount of damages asked. Neither Papadoupolos nor Gruson was available for comment, but it is believed that the promoter felt his name was injured when discussions about the possibility of his producing the concerts did not bear fruit...
...modus operandi is an calculated as it is certain. He appears at the track in a pin-stripe suit, wing-tips, and a smile. He is carrying his binoculars over his right shoulder and one of his two lackeys carries the briefcase with the condition books and results charts. His lackeys run errands for him such as checking the shoe board, the condition of the running surface, the direction of the wind, and noting down his comments. These messengers also share to some slight extent in the profits...
There are hints of the '30s, as in Chanel's navy wool smoking suit (complete with white starched shirt front and miniature black bow tie), and of the '40s, with Givenchy's languorous silver-fox coat. Saint Laurent goes way back: "It's 1890," he says of his patchwork evening dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves. He does not say which year inspired his black otter coat, appliqued on the back with a Somalia panther skin; whenever it was, the panther apparently had a bad time of it; he looks properly appalled at his fate...