Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Michael Carr (born Cohen), 64, a Dublin-reared Jew who wrote the music of some of the most popular Irish songs, including Did Your Mother Come from Ireland? and Everybody's Got a Touch of Irish; in London. Carr ran away to sea as a teenager, worked as a Hollywood bit player before moving to England, where he composed South of the Border and Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line...
First off, there was this huge telephone strike this summer that kept everyone in Cambridge out of touch with each other for the entire time, Swamped with orders and lacking in workers, the phone company couldn't give the summer people new phones...
When the workers came back, the phone company couldn't get in touch with all the people who had asked for service because these people didn't have telephones. So they sent our postcards, almost none of which were answered...
Stephens was understandably irritated over this treatment, especially when police refused his own brother permission to see him. His irritation raised a little-understood legal issue: What are the rights of a material witness? He got in touch with a pair of Memphis attorneys, Harvey Gipson, 37, and Jay Fred Friedman, 33, who pored over the laws of not only Tennessee but other states for precedents. While most states permit the jailing of witnesses, the attorneys found, the laws have been applied only in extreme circumstances-when there is clearly no other way to guarantee a witness's appearance...
...week in Ferragamo's headquarters in a 13th century palazzo, Fiamma was busily preparing her new fall line, which she plans to bring to New York early next month. Although she promises "something new and revolutionary in heels," the fall collection is sure to have the distinctive Ferragamo touch, which means that the shoes will be smart, plain-lined and, except for a few styles, made by hand. Says Fiamma: "Simply designed shoes are the hardest to make, but they sell best and always look stylish...