Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...back his charges, Garrett presented no documents, no specific evidence, only himself on the stand. Telephone Company Defense Attorney Kenneth Wright could only argue from documents that Garrett had at certain times failed to pay his bills and that the company had promptly corrected service interruptions when they occurred. After seven hours of deliberation, the jury last week voted 10 to 2 for Garrett, awarded him a stunning $1,500,000 for punitive damages plus $1 for actual damages...
Those Units. The telephone company, said Wright afterward, "in effect was put in a position of disproving a negative." It naturally plans to appeal. Cried Garrett, raising his hands to the heavens, "Where can any of us find the burden of our proof? It's all buried somewhere in some tight steel vault." He explained darkly: "We never know what we're being charged for on those bills-all those message units. How do I know how many message units I've used? What is a message unit anyway? Who can evaluate the damages of each call...
...then there was that $1,500,000 judgment. "It's just one of those flukes in the practice of law," said Attorney Wright, a little bit dazed. Chuckled Attorney Garrett, as he strode off arm in arm with his client: "Well, you win a few, lose...
Both Lundy and Rudolph are Harvard-educated and Gropius-trained architects. Both have rebelled against Gropius' group architecture, which stresses teamwork over individual ex pression. Both depart from a trim, easily reproduced machine esthetic, and both are influenced by that archromantic, Frank Lloyd Wright, who never would put up with it. Although each is different, they search for individual freedom to make spatial poetry, however flamboyant, that endures. Their concrete lessons may make boxy boredom obsolete...
...Among them: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Greer Garson, Fredric March, Teresa Wright, Fay Bainter, Walter Brennan, Burl Ives, Hugh Griffith, Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston...