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...Bailey first joined the Army in 1951 and must by now be a very old dog indeed, is being sent for sensitivity training. "The real-life sexual-harassment problems the Army was having kind of spilled over onto us," says Beetle creator Mort Walker, 73, who has faced the wrath of feminists in the past. "Some editors felt that although we weren't condoning it, we were on the edge." So, no more chasing MISS BUXLEY around a desk or falling off his chair to get a better view when she walks past. (The general ceased ordering her to retrieve...
...beanball. Di Muro, a 29-year-old pro umpire from New York, was invited this spring to step onto Japan's diamonds and teach the American meaning of a strike. But Di Muro soon learned that it's less hazardous to face Roberto Alomar's spit than the wrath of Japanese players and fans who don't like the call...
...designers, lighting engineers and stage managers must also receive due credit for their work. The set itself is simple, but a wide variety of innovative lighting techniques are used, which helps enormously. Even with the same backdrop, the different atmospheres of a sunny day, peaceful night and the fiery wrath of the gates of Hell all appear successively onstage. In addition, the colorful and elegant period costumes add to the vivacity of the singers...
...FRANCISCO: A federal jury put aside the wrath of grape magnate Jess Jackson, denying winery Kendall-Jackson's claim that industry giant E&J Gallo deliberately copied its bottle. The suit matched two of California's most stubborn and litigious vintners, Jackson and Ernest Gallo, over whether Gallo's Turning Leaf Chardonnay was designed to cleverly imitate the look (and sales success) of Kendall Jackson's top-selling Vintner's Reserve Chardonnay. Indeed, with its flanged top, visible cork and yellowing grape leaf, Gallo's bottle looks remarkably similar. It's been similar in the stores, as well: in just...
...targets of government wrath in American industry, none have been scorched more severely or more often than U.S. tobacco companies. But despite being hit with everything from health-warning labels to smoking bans in buildings to Vice President Al Gore's tale last year of his sister's fatal lung cancer, cigarette makers have survived and prospered. The industry's profits have been healthy for a decade, and in spite of countless lawsuits, no tobacco company has ever paid out a single penny to compensate anyone for damaged health...