Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jury was out for a total of three hours, found Pierre Jaccoud guilty of "simple homicide" and sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment, less the nearly two years he has already been under arrest. French lawyers sneered at the verdict as "a typical Swiss compromise." Lawyer Floriot, arriving in Paris, protested: "If my client was guilty, he should have received a much heavier sentence; if not, he should have been liberated...
...come with three of his Cabinet Ministers, members of the diplomatic corps and a group of Jewish leaders to pay tribute to Belsen's Jewish dead. It was the first visit of any high West German official to the place since former President Theodor Heuss unveiled the memorial seven years...
...cities throughout Indonesia, housewives defied a police ban on demonstrations to march on government offices; in Djakarta, students and trade-union deputations presented petitions of protest. Reason: within seven days, the price of rice had doubled and the cost of cooking fuel had shot up 61% as Indonesia's rupiah plunged unchecked. In less than two months the rupiah (officially 45 to the dollar) had fallen from 150 to a record low of 500. Adding twirls to the inflationary spiral were the 2,500,000 Overseas Chinese who have been banned since Jan. 1 from doing business in rural...
More in anger than in wisdom, Chairman Rosser Reeves, 49, of Ted Bates & Co., took pen in hand and wrote one of the most remarkable ads in recent years. Splashed full page in seven major newspapers last week at a cost of $23,574, it was Reeves's rebuttal to Federal Trade Commission charges that his agency had deceived TV viewers by shaving phony sandpaper in commercials for Colgate-Palmolive's Rapid Shave and by doctoring Standard Brands' Blue Bonnet Margarine with liquid drops that were billed as "flavor gems" (TIME, Jan. 25). Reeves...
Balding Financial Juggler Alexander L. Guterma, 44, who put together a shaky empire of a dozen corporations (TIME, Feb. 23), was convicted last week on 16 counts of conspiracy and fraud. Guterma and his British associate, Robert J. Eveleigh, found guilty on 15 counts, had sat through seven weeks of trial, listening to the damaging testimony of 53 witnesses. Accountants and auditors backed the Federal Government's contention that nearly 54,000,000 in assets vanished from Detroit's F. L. Jacobs Co., a holding company, while it was under Guterma controls. To conceal the losses...