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...Howard Hughes was the longest and most stupefyingly wasteful legal siege ever mounted. The suit was initiated in 1961 by the airline's banker-installed management to wrest control of TWA from Hughes-who owned 78% of its stock-and to compensate the company for huge losses suffered during his erratic rule. The case, played for stakes of half a billion dollars, never even came to trial. Yet it cost the litigants at least $20 million, and filled 694 feet of shelf space with legal documentation. The airline's attorneys prevailed, largely because of Hughes' pathological resistance...
...offending candidates in a Crimson ad, "Vote: Neil Gross. Good O1' Gross is Great." With a little luck, the author of this advertisement may someday become a young dynamo, or maybe an old dynamo, as the case may be. It may be the year after Watergate, but the longest journey begins with a single step...
...remainder of the 18-month term. Less than two weeks after the swearing-in, five men were arrested on charges of burglary and wiretapping at Watergate - and the grand jurors have been at the court's disposal ever since. Their 19-month tour of duty is already the longest in district court history, and no end is in sight...
Heath's actions have already caused hardship among Britain's working class, which averages the longest hours per week (44.1) and the shortest vacation per year (twelve days) of any nation in the European Community. Reduced paychecks simply would not stretch to meet mortgage, food and time payments. "One minute we was a normal person," said Birmingham Shop Steward John Joynson. "Now the whole world is turned upside down." The number of emigration applications of Britons asking to leave the country has soared...
Harvard's basketball fortunes took an encouraging turn upward just before the break for exams as the Crimson turned back Northeastern and Yale before packing it in. The modest two-game win streak is the Crimson's longest since Harvard defeated Brown and Holy Cross in succession back in December...