Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often change the courtroom controversy into a lawyers' scramble for headlines. And when that happens, the search for truth may be sadly neglected. This is the disturbing conclusion of The Trial of Jack Ruby (Macmillan; $7.95), by Professors John Kaplan and Jon R. Waltz of Stanford and North western universities, a deft and read able analysis that depicts a legal disaster-a world-watched trial in which the defendant drew the ultimate sentence of death while his lawyers were busy boosting their own egos...
...suspects that Bell may be charging too much for some services, too little for others. With its usual sympathy for Bell's smaller competitors, the Commission has been aroused by a complaint from Western Union that Bell is undercharging for services in which the two companies clash headon. A.T. &T. earns only 1.4% on the private-line telegraph service and 4.7% on the private-line telephone service that it sells to business in competition with Western Union, but gets a return of 10% on interstate telephone services which it monopolizes. The FCC will also investigate whether A.T.&T. pays...
...wide variety of shops, eat lunch and have her hair done. Los Angeles' Ail-American Acceptance Corp. has come out with a complete card for the automobile owner, who can use credit for repairs, new parts and the purchase of seat covers or tires. Universal Western Corp., a new Colorado company, issues cards that are honored by doctors, dentists and veterinarians as well as by retailers; unlike most other card plans, it actively seeks college students as customers...
...World War II and a certain resistance to wash-and-wear and wrinkle-free clothes made Europe lag behind the switch to synthetic fibers that swept the U.S. in the 1950s. Now Europe is making up for lost time. Synthetic fibers have become a $2.6 billion business in Western Europe v. $2.4 billion in the U.S. Close to two dozen new chemical-based fiber plants are being built in Europe (v. four going...
...winds. Said Rorimer: "It is an original work of art, not a plaster cast. I'm convinced it is of the period and of great value." The Met will subject it to a series of exhaustive tests, but even before the results are in, Met Curator of Western European Art John G. Phillips predicts that it will prove to be the original from which the Bargello bust was made. Furthermore, he believes that it is by Leonardo da Vinci...