Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wray's argument was enough for Samoa's Chief Judge Arthur Morrow, 71, former dean of Iowa's Drake University Law School. Amazing the lavalava-clad spectators, Morrow declared the Samoan civil rights law null and void. Moreover, at Wray's request, Judge Morrow approved the arrest of Governor Lee's prosecutor for arresting Brown without a warrant (possible penalty: a $500 fine, a year in jail or both). Said one sober Samoan as he left the courtroom: "We now know that the American Constitution means something in American Samoa...
...COFO attorneys' petition to remand the case to federal court had already been granted, however. Thus, a COFO spokesman indicated that the civil rights organization felt the city trial would be ruled void and that the 98 would be freed this morning...
...rubbed the bookmakers the wrong way. Fifty of the biggest bookies in England-from Joe Coral and Ladbroke's to Jack Swift and William Hill-gathered that evening at London's Victoria Club. The bookies agreed to call the betting on that particular race null and void. All money wagered on the race would be refunded...
Though nature abhors the vacuum, businessmen have learned to regard it highly. By emptying air from sealed chambers to create a void, U.S. industry keeps the $16 billion electronics industry going, adds life to jet engines and makes the vitamins in cod liver oil easy to take. Sales of the machinery used to produce vacuums for industrial uses are growing 10% to 15% a year; awareness of the vacuum's almost limitless potential is growing even faster. Last week in Toronto this potential was probed at a meeting of physicists who specialize in working with vacuums. Though their esoteric...
GRAHAM SUTHERLAND-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th. There is nothing pastoral about Sutherland's nature: a praying mantis peers from a wicked void of scarlet, a skull dangles in a tapestry of leaves and blue sky, a snake sneaks up to a formal fountain, a torso flails agains: gravity. In his own words, Britain's topflight painter makes "emotional paraphrases of reality." They have never been more horrible or beautiful. Twenty-five recent oils. Through June...