Word: wahl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jacobs does not confine his efforts solely to medical emergencies--he performs morale-boosting missions as well. During the Dominican crisis, he was asked by anxious parents to contact Lance Corporal Martin E. Wahl, who was in combat with the Marines on the island. Jacobs spoke to Wahl's colonel, who personally went out to the firing lines to look...
...Congressman Adam Clayton Powell has taxed more than 70 judges with his legal evasions of a $46,500 defamation judgment won by Mrs. Esther James, a widow whom Powell slandered on TV as a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. Last week acting New York State Supreme Court Justice Maurice Wahl rewarded Powell's "monstrous defiance of the law" by awarding Mrs. James the whopping...
...year ago, Mrs. James charged that Powell evaded attachment for the judgment by fraudulently transferring title to his $50,000 house in Puerto Rico to his wife's aunt and uncle. Twice, Powell ignored fact-finding trials. Last week, forced to assume that the charge was true, Justice Wahl ordered Powell to pay Mrs. James $75,000 in compensatory and $500,000 in punitive damages. Summing up his opinion of Powell, Justice Wahl indignantly paraphrased a famous insult attributed to Virginia's 19th century Senator John Randolph: "He is a man of splendid abilities, but he shines...
Frank Hagherty, Doug Mansfield, and Bruce Brandhorst swept the first three places for Lowell. Dieter Wahl of Kirkland and Neil Houston of Quincy finished fourth and fifth. But Lowell would not be put off, and placed scorers in sixth and tenth, also. The winning time or the course, informally gauged at two miles...
...bearded Franco-American collagist, Jean-Jacques Lebel, 28, the festival drew the violent participation of some 60 Montparnasse artists and their friends. Among the 2,000 onlookers were many of the old surrealists, Dadaists and other proponents of artistic anarchy, (as well as Painter Marcel Duchamp and Philosopher Jean Wahl, who introduced Heidegger to Sartre). To them, the whole show must have seemed a remembrance of flings past...