Word: suits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statehouse. Frank Johnson's courtroom is stylishly WPA, a towering place with ornate ceiling beams, a gallery, and a bench that stands before a blue wall studded with gold stars. Through a door in the starry wall strides the judge, lean and tanned in his unvarying crisp black suit, white shirt and black tie. He usually shuns robes: "If a judge needs a robe and a gavel, he hasn't established control...
Pure Escapism. Nicholson, a former usher who graduated to theater owner, first met his partner in 1952 when, on behalf of a client, Attorney Arkoff threatened suit for title infringement. Impressed with each other's skill at infighting, they decided to join forces, borrowed $3,000 and turned out their first production, The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes. To shave expenses, they reduced the monster's role to something resembling an oversexed vaporizer, but Beast was a screaming success, owing almost entirely to the pull of the title and the practice of "saturation booking" -showing the feature...
There is no central authority in boxing, but the other commissions followed suit right away, right on cue. The New York State Athletic Commission suspended Clay's license indefinitely, pending the outcome of the legal case, which may not be decided for another two years. The European commissions did the same...
...opponent, Frank O'Connor, was able to scrape up only a half million. If O'Connor were to run again in 1970, he would receive no money. But based on the Long formula, struggling candidate Lyndon Johnson may receive 30 million dollars in 1968. Financing presidential campaigns may suit Lyndon Johnson's plans for '68, but it hardly suits Long's rhetoric (studded with references to the "poor boy making good" and boys from "log cabins") or the reality of American campaign financing...
...position of potentially immense prestige, and there could be an important election in the near future: for the area's first Congressman. Right now, because of gerrymandering in the Republican-dominated 1961 state legislature, Bedford-Stuyvesant is split among five contorted congressional districts. Residents have filed a suit challenging the districting, the city joined with them on it, and a decision is expected in the next few weeks...