Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...line that guards freedom of the press from license is the law of libel. Editors are always mindful of it; advertising departments are sometimes less heedful...
...police commissioner of Montgomery, Ala., decided that the Times had done him wrong. Sullivan had not even been mentioned by name; the ad was an appeal for funds to defend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Southern Negro leader, against charges of income-tax evasion. Nonetheless, Sullivan sued for libel, seeking $500,000 damages against the Times and four other defendants. Last week in Montgomery, a circuit court jury gave Lester Sullivan every dollar he asked...
Just Begun. Though the verdict will be appealed, it was a considerable blow to the Times (which buried the story on page 67). Still pending are three more libel suits resulting from the same ad, including one by Alabama Governor John M. Patterson, asking $1,000,000. The Sullivan judgment strongly implied that the Times's trouble has only begun...
...comes off as a jolly accomplice in mass murder, an affable fanatic who cares everything about rockets and nothing about the people they happen to kill. In the end, his moral indifference is shown to be dubiously justified by his scientific success. Von Braun possibly has ground for a libel suit, but then he might do better to ignore the picture. So might everybody else...
...page 26, column 2 of your Sept. 12 issue you libel me by referring to me as "a convicted subversive in World War II." This is completely false...