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...Melvin Belli asked a million dollars for his clients. Belli was representing the widow and children of William Kapell, the brilliant 31 -year-old pianist killed in an air crash in 1953 while returning home from Australia. At the trial in 1961, Belli bolstered his argument with a lustrous array of musical talent to testify to Kapell's genius and high earning power - Rudolf Serkin, Artur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski. But before the jury could award a penny, it had to decide on liability, and on that question the musicians were...
Seldom has a scholar assembled such an impressive array of quotations in which American dignitaries say the "wrong things"--or used the quotations so effectively. Shapiro quotes a statement by Senators Ellender of Louisiana and Eastland of Mississippi that "Latin America needs . . . more dictators like Trujillo." Similarly, during the 1962 Cuban crisis a Congressman declared that "for a good many years down in Latin America, on forty different occasions, American armed forces . . . moved into countries south of the border. . . . But lately we have adopted this mamby-pamby policy of attempting to turn to Latin American countries, to ask their permission...
...that 8 + 5 is the same as 5 + 8 (the commutative law); that subtraction (8 -5 = ?) can be expressed as addition (5 + ? = 8); that division is the inverse of multiplication 10/2 = 5 because 5 X 2=10); and that the commutative law also holds for multiplication, as in the array...
...Brave, Freud), and Jazzman John Lewis, 43 (No Sun in Venice, Odds Against Tomorrow), are the most admired. The young writers have completely abandoned the customary 100-piece orchestra of Tiomkin's heyday; for next month's Shock Treatment, Goldsmith uses a chamber orchestra and a chilling array of electronic instruments...
Results Count. The military has an equal chance to educate civilian education itself. Service schools have pioneered in everything from training films to programmed instruction. At Long Island's Naval Training Device Center, 600 experts spend $60 million a year to produce a fantastic array of teaching aids, from mock submarines to simulated human flesh that bleeds on order...