Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...with Their Wheels. Even Soviet bureaucrats were acting like capitalist bureaucrats. Several months ago the government ordered all officials and executives to turn in their state-owned vehicles to a common motor pool. The decree has been more honored in the breach than in the observance. One brewery director refused to surrender his Moskvich sedan, pleading that it was needed to deliver beer. Moscow police stopped a small delivery truck bearing the sign, "Home Delivery of Buns and Crullers," discovered that it was delivering the bakery manager to the railroad station to meet incoming relatives. A roving reporter from Komsomolskaya...
...father of two young sons and a 15-year-old daughter, Koch bitterly viewed his dismissal as a breach of academic free dom. "I am a biologist," said he, "and I think I know something about sex. More enlightenment about sex and morals would lead to healthier lives for our citizens. This is the most puritan country in the Western world...
...regain his job, Koch appealed to the faculty committee on academic freedom and to the American Association of University Professors. At week's end, neither group had come to a decision. But another faculty committee, backing President Henry, had already called Professor Koch's letter "a grave breach of academic responsibility...
...British labor today, Coventry has become a common form of social punishment. Labor leaders estimate that in the last several years at least 50 workers have been sent to Coventry for one breach of union solidarity or another. The treatment can be tragically effective. In 1956 a railroad engine driver named Jack Heginbotham put his head in a gas oven after living in silence one solid year. Says another victim: "I have seen grown men standing still and doffing their caps as I passed by to show me that as far as they were concerned I was dead...
...prodigal parvenu of the perfume-and-lipstick trade, whose reputation for omniscience about milady's taste is matched only by his legendary omnivorousness toward his own executives (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week a former Revlon vice president sued Charles Revson for $601,460 damages on charges of breach of agreement in a stock transaction made when the plaintiff left Revlon two years ago. The plaintiff: Martin Elliot Revson, Charlie's younger (49) brother...