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...rebuttal of the evidence arrayed against his client. To allow Shelby County Attorney General Phil M. Canale Jr. to lay his case before a jury, Foreman reasoned, would, in effect, consign Ray to Tennessee's electric chair (which has not been used since 1960). Only Ray proved stubborn. Until only a few days before his trial, he still believed he would outwit the executioner...
...promote P. & G.'s Biz, the Chicago advertising agency of TathamLaird & Kudner has flooded TV with spot commercials showing Actor Eddie Albert using the product to remove stubborn berry stains. For Axion, Manhattan's William Esty agency has turned out TV spots starring Arthur Godfrey. He holds up a bloodied table napkin or a child's dress stained by chocolate ice cream and demonstrates how Axion helps clean them. Godfrey was hired, says Ward Hagan, a Colgate vice president, "because he's so sincere and believable...
...issued yet another "non" to both lavish wage increases and devaluation. He told his cabinet that the wage settlement offer last May was "probably too much. But what has been done is done. In any event, there is no question of going any further." Despite De Gaulle's stubborn determination, a large number of European moneymen regard as inevitable a 10% to 15% devaluation of the franc before the end of the year...
...NATION was once mortgaged to the railroads, that mortgage has long since been paid off. Boston's South Station is so empty your footsteps echo as they would in a deserted cathedral. Its cavernous waiting room is almost vacant except for a few stubborn worshippers. Now there are just commuter trains and a couple of runs to new York. Once South Station could have been the setting for any of those postwar movies in which the returning soldier watches June Allison waiting ecstatically for him as he struggles through the crowds, finally to embrace her. The movie was long...
...inhabitants of Skid Row have been type-cast by police and rescue missions as dirty, diseased, indolent, iniquitous and unreclaimable men. In fact, they deserve only a part of this broadside indictment. The Skid Rower's prin cipal crime against the prevailing values of U.S. society is his stubborn refusal to accept them. On the Bowery, investigators found that 55% of the inhabitants had never married, one-third had never voted, two-thirds claimed no close friend either on or off Skid Row. One in four, asked where he expected to be a year hence, predicted that he might...