Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suit against the rock 'n' rollers, Wilson was represented by none other than Quintin Hogg, who announced that "the Prime Minister has for some years been aware that various false and malicious rumors have been spread concerning his personal character and integrity. He has always considered it right to treat them with the contempt they deserved." Now, said Hogg, Wilson wanted to "make plain his determination to establish the complete falsity of these rumors...
...reporting the Prime Minister's suit against the International Herald Tribune, British newspapers were compelled to be even more oblique. All the Daily Telegraph felt able to say, for example, was that the "Prime Minister's solicitors confirm that, when in New York on other matters," Wilson's counsel, Lord Goodman, "agreed to attend a meeting of lawyers to discuss the possibility of disposing by agreed settlement the serious legal complaint made by the Prime Minister against an international publication...
...Eastern Intercollegiate Debate League championship against competition from Yale and Penn. He was president of the dramatic society and a varsity track man-for his 50-sec. time in the quarter-mile leg of the mile relay, he says, "they wouldn't even give me a suit today"-was a cheerleader, class-day and commencement orator. With all that activity, Gould tutored children at a private school, worked part time in the Bates president's office and still managed a B average. When he graduated in 1930, the campus yearbook named him both "most talented" and "best dressed...
...touchy themes-prostitution in Never on Sunday, drug addiction in Man with a Golden Arm. Both films were considered too hot to handle two years ago. Following the lead of Bell Telephone, Xerox and Hallmark, an increasing number of sponsors bunch or juggle the sequence of their commercials to suit the format of a show. And in upcoming months, the programmers are preparing the TV, debuts of such film stars as Doris Day, William Holden, Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn, as well as more specials by such writers as Paddy Chayefsky, Tad Mosel and Gore Vidal, who have...
Johnson had special reason to be disturbed about a new European tax scheme pioneered by France and Denmark. Last week West Germany adopted it, and several other European countries are planning to follow suit. An excise-type levy on goods produced (the U.S., by contrast, usually taxes only the profits of companies that make the goods), the new tax figures to streamline the traditional European system, which heretofore has resulted in a maze of overlapping assessments. It thus will make it an easier bookkeeping matter to rebate the full tax paid by exporters and, at the same time, to exact...