Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John V. Lindsay, Mayor of New York City, will speak on "The Urban Crisis and the Kerner Commission Report" at noon today in Sanders Theatre...
Built by Hitler to turn out "people's cars," the Volkswagen factory made only 210 cars before it went into war production, and after V-E day it was a shambles, 60% destroyed by Allied bombs. Nordhoff, too, was part of the postwar wreckage-a lifelong German automan who, because he had manufactured trucks for the Wehrmacht, was forbidden to work in the U.S. zone at anything except manual labor...
...running Opel's new truck factory in Brandenburg, largest in Europe. Though he turned out 3,000 to 4,000 trucks a month for the wartime German army, he refused to join the Nazi Party. Even so, U.S. occupiers after V-E day decided that he had risen too high as an executive under Hitler, and effectively canceled his career-until the British invited him to Wolfsburg...
Class actions provide a way for the claims of many individuals to be settled at one time, eliminating repetitious litigation and providing an economical way to obtain redress since the legal fees can be taken from the total damages awarded. Such important cases as the school-desegregating Brown v. Board of Education and the one-man one-vote Reynolds v. Sims were both class actions. And the practice is now likely to grow more common. The reason is a 2-to-l decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City on what may be the largest class...
...Hrundi V. Bakshi is an Indian actor who was imported from New Delhi to play a heroic bugler in a new Bengal Lancer-Gunga Din-style movie being shot in California. This is his big chance, but he blows it-first with his bugle, when he wrecks a scene by continuing to blat out battle calls instead of dying of his wounds, then by blowing up the fort that is about to be stormed in the film's big fight scene. The enraged director fires him, and arranges to have the name Hrundi V. Bakshi inscribed on Hollywood...