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...easily. Paramount has secured him for a concert film, referred to familiarly at Paramount as Beverly Hills Cop Goes to London, and five features, possibly including a Cop sequel. His fans--just about everyone--need no catchy titles for his movies. Just call them Eddie V, Eddie VI, Eddie VII. Then watch the lines form and the smiles start to glow...
Ford is also promoting performance. It jammed a mammoth V-8 engine into its compact Mustang and produced a car with neck-snapping acceleration: 0 to 60 m.p.h. in 7.2 sec. The luxurious Continental Mark VII LSC has been redesigned for better handling. It has a new slippery shape and a suspension system that uses air-filled rubber sacks instead of steel shock absorbers. Another manufacturer that has been especially successful with cars designed for demanding drivers is Pontiac. In addition to the Fiero, it has won over customers with its 6000 STE, a mid-size model aimed at wooing...
...firm, King & Spalding, against Elizabeth Anderson Hishon, who worked for the firm from 1972 to 1979 as an associate. She was forced to leave under the so-called "up or out" rule, after she was twice considered and rejected for a partnership in the firm. Hishon sued, invoking Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment by firms with more than 15 employees. Atlanta Federal District Judge Newell Edenfield threw out Hishon's suit in 1980, saying that "to coerce a mismatched or unwanted partnership too closely resembles . . . the enforcement of shotgun weddings...
...June 27, Major General J. Lawton Collins' VII Corps captured Cherbourg (after the besieged Germans had destroyed most of the port facilities), but the Americans remained just as penned in as the British. More than 1 million men now appeared stalemated on a front of no more than 100 miles, and while neither side could win a decisive advantage in the swampy and hedgerowed terrain, both suffered heavy losses. "We were stuck," said Corporal Bill Preston of the 743rd Tank Battalion. "Something dreadful seemed to have happened in terms of the overall plan...
...count, Tuchman damns Popes from both ends of her pencil. She takes Alexander VI to task for granting an undeserved annulment to the French King, Louis XII, and thereby scandalizing the faithful. A few pages later she faults Clement VII for bowing to Habsburg political pressure and denying an annulment to Henry VIII of England...