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...raise a bit of extra revenue, New York State sells its list of motor-vehicle owners, complete with addresses, to the highest bidder. New York vehicle owners are thereupon inundated with predictable bales of junk mail, sales-pitch telephone calls, and even personal visits by hawkers of various products. The situation became so intolerable to Old Leftist Author and 1967 Valiant Owner Corliss Lament that he sued to prevent the state from selling his name. In the warming winds of judicial concern over invasion of privacy, Lament thought his chances good...
...warnings and branded him an alarmist. Top-level responsibility for the Middle East was bucked from official to official. Nicholas Katzenbach looked into Washington's policy when he became Under Secretary last September, quickly passed the problem to Newcomer Eugene Rostow, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, who thereupon turned it over to a newer comer, his deputy, Foy Kohler...
...during its era of "sophisticated muckraking," Curtis Publishing's Saturday Evening Post reported that Butts had revealed strategy secrets to Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant, whose Crimson Tide thereupon rolled over Georgia in their 1962 football game, 35-0. Butts sued the Post and won a judgment of $3,060,000, later reduced to $460,000 by the trial judge...
...Israel at any cost, but the Baathists proved impossible to restrain; they kept up irksome terrorist attacks over the Israeli border. Stung by these attacks, Premier Eshkol made the second error by threatening war against Syria to stop them. Charging that an Israeli invasion was on the way, Syria thereupon mobilized its troops and called on Egypt to mobilize also under the mutual de fense treaty. If he hoped to retain any glimmering of his declining prestige in the Arab world, Nasser had no choice...
...Radio Moscow and Joe McCarthy, plus sports, doctors, dogs, commercial TV and many of its performers; after a long illness; in London. Cassandra once described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love." And thereupon Liberace sued for libel and won a $22,400 judgment...