Word: suits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...actor, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, 28, Hollywood's hottest prodigy (Jaws). The new film, which depicts an encounter between earthlings and extraterrestrial beings, is being shot in elaborate secrecy at an abandoned Air Force hangar in Mobile, Ala. So far the secrecy seems to suit Spielberg just fine. "Directing a movie with Truffaut on the set," he says, "is like having Renoir around when you're still painting by numbers...
False Promises. Perhaps not. The Texas bar has recently been learning a lot about Yarbrough's legal abilities -and his courtroom experience as a defendant. While running in the primary, Yarbrough had 13 civil suits against him pending in state and federal courts. Last June, just after his nomination, a Houston jury returned a verdict against him in a suit charging him with malpractice and false promises. Says former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, now back practicing law in Houston: "From all I can ascertain, he does not have the qualifications to sit on the supreme court." The grievance...
...torpid snail's crawl. Reported TIME Correspondent David Beckwith: "It was almost as if the bar was withdrawing from its leadership role in public discussion of today's issues." Delegates sidetracked a resolution opposing restrictions on abortion as not "germane." Despite a pending federal antitrust suit against the A.B.A.'s strict limits on lawyer advertising, conventioneers were in no mood to go beyond the modest liberalizing of ad rules five months ago (TIME, March 1). When Jimmy Carter appeared to talk about the need to reform the appointment of regulatory-agency officials, A.B.A. members were caught somewhat...
...photographers were just dying for me to fall in the water, but for that I get paid lots and lots of money," joked Moreno afterward. If she escaped a watery fate, Moreno was less lucky with some of her more ardent fans. "There was a man with a polyester suit and Instamatic camera who just draped himself all over me," she recalled. "I felt like I was being surrounded by a Baggie...
Kennecott executives say they cannot discuss their Peabody problems because of this pending suit. Yet they previously made no secret of the fact that they have talked to "more than 200 parties" interested in buying at least part of Peabody. Of these, only five seemed able to pay the full sale price-reportedly a cool $1 billion. So far, however, Cities Service Corp., the Tennessee Valley Authority and a privately owned coal-exporting firm called ICM-Carbomin International have either formally or informally dropped out of contention. While the other two-both syndicates of electric utilities-keep on negotiating...