Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sales immediately doubled, and other hi-fi companies began to follow suit. Shure, EMI-Scope, Fisher and others put out "solid-state" (transistorized) portables that looked like luggage when closed, sounded almost like full symphonies when open. Harman-Kardon added an AM-FM radio, managed to cram everything into one chassis to the tune of $399. KLH's latest model, the Twenty-Plus, converts both the two speakers and the tuner-amplifier-changer unit into small tables by placing them on pedestals, covering them with an assortment of fabrics...
...suggestion has just been declared to be law in a notable ruling of U.S. District Judge James F. Gordon in a $2,000,000 libel suit against two Louisville newspapers and a radio station. The plaintiff: former Army Major General Edwin F. Walker. The defendants, charged Walker, defamed him by publishing and broadcasting wire-service reports suggesting that he incited student race rioters at the University of Mississippi...
...said the judge, "are public property." In a signal victory for the U.S. press, Judge Gordon found the defendants not guilty of actual malice, since they merely transmitted what they believed to be accurate news. He thereupon dismissed the case "with prejudice," meaning that Walker cannot refile a similar suit against the Louisville defendants...
...push new styling too far too fast; men are more conservative than women, and their styles change slowly. Through subtle changes made over long periods, the industry has shortened coats and sleeves, narrowed lapels and tapered trousers. Two of this year's heralded innovations are the shaped suit and the return of the double-breasted-but they have yet to prove their drawing power. Says John D. Gray, president of Hart Schaffner & Marx: "Acceptance of the shaped look has been very limited. The double-breasted suit is as dead as the dodo...
...newspaper called a Negro school principal an 'Uncle Tom' and a 'stoogo' last spring. He lost his job soon afterwards and sued for libel and slander damages," Howe explained. "But such a suit by a public official was clearly ruled out by the Supreme Court in New York Times v. Sullivan. The trouble with Ashland is that they say they don't know anything about the decision, don't like it and don't want to hear about...