Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...several other English firms and San Francisco's Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.-the only American underwriter in the field-have been slogging about in what one English expert calls "a rather sticky patch." The death of Tyrone Power during Solomon and Sheba caused the biggest settlement in history: Fireman's Fund paid United Artists $1,219,172. The vaguely defined illnesses that put France Nuyen out of Suzie Wong cost the insurance companies nearly half a million-when Audrey Hepburn fell from a horse in Mexico early last year, breaking her back and delaying The Unforgiven...
Wall to Wall. Though the scene was as American as deep-freeze apple pie, the setting was not. The tightly knit settlement of 15,000 U.S. citizens-mainly Air Force dependents with a sprinkling of Army folk-stands on a wooded hilltop above the baroque German city of Wiesbaden (pop. 250,000) at a bend of the Rhine River. In this slumless paradise, each officer's or noncom's family is assigned a completely furnished, one-to five-bedroom apartment in buildings erected for them by the West German government. Some 600 bachelor officers and civilians are housed...
Although Princess Margaret and her husband, sometime Society Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, have seldom circulated in London's night life since their marriage, last week's Docklands Settlement Ball, a charity affair long one of Margaret's favorites, proved beyond resistance. Notified on very short notice that the Princess and her party of 20 would be there, the ball's tossers had little time to inform some 500 invited white-tie guests that Tony and his male companions would attend in dinner jackets and no decorations (of which Armstrong-Jones, as it happens, has none...
...wrong." Patients' complaints are studied by a board of 15 doctors and one clergy man. If the committee decides a malpractice complaint is justified, the medical society's insurer-American Mutual Liability Insurance Co.-is obligated to set tie with the plaintiff. Largest out-of-court settlement...
...Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., an $855 million oil-marketing combine with 37,000 employees in 50 countries and sales last year of $1 billion, will be divided between its joint owners, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and Socony Mobil Oil Corp. The decision was embodied in a partial settlement last week of a long, controversial suit filed by the Justice Department against five of the biggest U.S. oil companies: Jersey Standard, Socony Mobil, Standard Oil Co. of California, Texaco Inc. and Gulf Oil Corp...