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...Stiff Opposition. According to supporters of the Moss-Magnuson bill, national no-fault insurance will do much to distribute insurance payments more equitably. Under the existing system, insurers tend to fight large claims vigorously, giving the most seriously injured and the families of those who are killed only a fifty-fifty chance of collecting. Smaller claimants, by threatening expensive court action, can often win out-of-court settlements worth many times the actual cost of their injuries...
Holt had the fans out of the ball park in time to catch the Derby on T.V., as he breezed through seven innings striking out seven and making the rest of the lineup pop up into the stiff wind. The contest took a mere hour and a half to complete, as Harvard didn't spend much time at the plate either...
Even in Europe, Volkswagen is meeting increasingly stiff competition from small-car competitors like Simca and Opel, and this year's sales in West Germany have dropped 18%. Despite the high price of fuel, Volkswagen has even been losing a good share of its market to the much thirstier Mercedes-Benz, suggesting to some VW officials that the beloved Beetle configuration may have finally outlived its attractiveness. As a result, the company that once turned a one-model line into an advertising asset has been introducing a whole new array of cars...
...thing, if the Government can show that a defendant swore to two conflicting statements, it need no longer prove which one was false. Gone too is the stiff requirement that the testimony of a single witness who contradicts a defendant must be backed by a second witness or by other evidence. As a result, "a man can be convicted merely on the oath of another man," says Boston Defense Lawyer Paul T. Smith. "That's tragic. For instance [Presidential Lawyer Herbert] Kalmbach has tes tified in direct contradiction to [Bebe] Rebozo on the disposition of that $100,000 Hughes...
Going into the race, B.U. had been expected to present a stiff challenge to Radcliffe, but the B.U. threat never materialized...