Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court didn't buy Alabama's argument, but it still wouldn't end Freedom of Choice. In a compromise decision, it gave the state one year to make Freedom of Choice work, and invited the Justice Department to file a new suit next summer...
This summer's court session in Alabama saw two major trials, each illustrating one phase of the fight against Freedom of Choice. The first, held in early August, was mainly valuable as a theatrical production. The name of the suit--The United States of America vs. The United Klans of America--hinted what kind of an affair it would be. An inexperienced Justice Department lawyer brought a parade of 50 residents of Crenshaw County, Ala., to the stand and had them tell what the Klan had been doing to keep Freedom of Choice from working in the county's schools...
Lost Expectations. Another factor in the Social Democrats' resounding victory was the inability of Sweden's opposition Conservative, Liberal and agrarian Center parties to forge an effective alliance. Overconfidence played a part. When Norway threw out its long-ruling Labor Party three years ago, and Denmark followed suit by unseating its Social Democrats last January, Swedish opposition leaders thought they perceived a trend to the right, and smugly expected Sweden to move in the same direction. The trend proved more apparent than real, since nowhere has any part of Scandinavia's all-embracing welfare system been repealed...
From opening-night limousines emerged more of the same. "Of course it's a Saint Laurent," said Lauren Bacall, displaying her black jersey jump suit. "When it's pants, it's Yves's." Saint Laurent's newest companion and inspiration, former Chanel Model Betty Catroux, a tall, lithe specter of a woman, arrived in a black satin, sequined jump suit, open to below the rib cage. And when Yves himself shyly walked in, sporting an outsize tie, paisley shirt and multiple chains worn hip-hugger style, the scene was pandemonium...
When Hughes objected to the way the new trustee-appointed management was running the company, TWA's new president, Charles Tillinghast Jr. (TIME cover, July 22, 1966), engaged in a bit of preemptive warfare. TWA hit Hughes with a suit that asked $115 million in damages (the amount was increased later), and demanded that Hughes be forced to divest himself of his holdings in the airline that he had built from a middling carrier in 1939 to a major airline. Hughes hit back with a countersuit charging that Tillinghast and the lenders were conspiring to dispossess...