Word: voided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ambassador Charles Bohlen was called to the Quai d'Orsay and informed of France's intention. In Washington, dapper French Ambassador Hervé Alphand gave the cold slap to Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman. The French government, said Alphand, considered it necessary "to fill the void" left by the Sino-Soviet dispute by accepting "the reality" of China...
...liver; in Detroit. A career sportsman, Dodge dispensed large chunks of the family fortune for souped-up speedboats and five wives (five children) who consumed more than $2 million in alimony and settlements. Sure to come: a battle royal over Dodge's will, which declares itself "null and void" if he is survived by his mother, now 93. Stakes: $2,000,000 in Dodge's personal funds, and eventually $65 million now in Mamma's name...
...down by a strike just one year ago, the institute's vice president, Irving Oilman, saw a chance to probe for the values people find in newspapers when they cannot take them for granted and an opportunity to measure the ability of television and radio to fill the void. But Gilman was unable to find a client. Both publishers and broadcasters seemed afraid of the possible results. The institute went ahead anyway, picking up the tab itself for lengthy personal interviews with a total of 530 New Yorkers before, during and after the strike. When the report is issued...
They are the rural dispossessed-Southern Negroes, Appalachian whites, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans-who fill the urban void left by middle-class migration to the suburbs. They share the American dream of salvation by education and go to the public school that everyone says will save them. Why is it that just the opposite happens so often in city schools across the country...
Corie (Elizabeth Ashley) and Paul (Robert Redford) are newlyweds and their marriage is a six-day wonder. So is their apartment. This five-flight walk-up (six counting the outdoor stoop) in an East 40s Manhattan brownstone is a one-room void with annexes: a postage-stamp bedroom sans bed, a bathroom sans tub, a radiator that has chosen February not to work, and a skylight with a missing pane for snow that wants to come in out of the snow. As a proper young lawyer, Paul has qualms about the place, but he is still inclined to be playful...