| Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Wednesday July 10 1996 — Page 5 New firm achieves Web coup NEW YORK (AP)- SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — was born July 29 1907 in the Gold Rush town of Sonora His father sued to gel his son’s high school diploma after Belli the On the roof of the city’s elegant Belli Building a cannon and flagpole stood ready Over the years the raising of the flag and the boom of the cannon meant one thing: Melvin Belli had won another case new -A company has created a Law legend Belli dies low-co- st device to browse the Internet’s World Wide Web blasting in front of computer industry voter-an- s who have talked about the dc for months but not delivered WebTV Networks Inc a Sili- valedictorian was expelled for The feisty barrister whose clients ranged from Mae West to Muhammad Ali to Jack Ruby died Tuesday surrounded by family at his San Francisco con Valley startup firm planned to demonstrate its device publicly home He was 88 Belli had a stroke last week brought on by pancreatic cancer and he developed pneumonia last for the first time today and announce two powerful partners Sony Electronics Inc and weekend Philips Consumer Electronics Co said his fifth wife Nancy Ho Belli Known as the “King of Torts” Belli claimed to have won more than $600 million in damages for will produce and sell machines based on WcbTV’s technology in September Nearly a dozen companies his clients keeping a third for himself as commission Though including large ones like Oracle Corp and IBM have talked about lower-co- st Internet access devices in recent months WebTV Networks kept quiet working with Sony and Philips for months and building their trust by adhering to design deadlines WebTV ’s machine uses a phone line and universal remote control to navigate the worldwide computer network in the end he filed for personal bankruptcy Belli wrote or co-wro- 72 te books including five volumes of “Modem Trials” widely used in law classes Despite a client list that included Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker AP photo Jack Ruby right the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald confers with his attorney Melvin Beni in District Court in Dallas Jan 20 1964 Belli the feisty banister whose clients ranged from Mae West and Errol Flynn to Jim and Tammy Bakker died Tuesday Lana Turner and the RoLling Belli: Picked many cases others ‘didn't want to be bothered with' Stones Belli also took pride in defending people who weren’t famous He sought damages for 24000 victims of the toxic gas disaster in Bhopal India and for families of sailors killed in an Iraqi jet attack on a US Navy frigate “He was very proud of picking the cases people didn’t want to be bothered with” Mrs Belli said The only son of a banker Belli Japanese automakers stay atop customer satisfaction ratings ' DETROIT (AP) — Japan’s luxury automakers and dealers still are doing the best job at for several years Lexus Toyota’s luxury division fell to second place after five years as the No keeping their customers happy In the latest JD Power and Associates survey of driver satisfaction Infiniti Lexus and Acura June with Lexus and had been ranked second since then Honda’s Acura out on top The survey Tuesday is a closely division was ranked fourth in vyatchcd industry yardstick Acura Lexus and Infiniti have made customer satisfaction an integral part of their overall market strategy" said Bill Wallis the survey’s author “These lutomakers built customer satis- Among buyers of pickups minivans and sport utility vehi- till reim cles Honda was rated No ' ?r t 1 end- - Salt City Candles Woven Afghans Stamps Christening Clothes 15-ye- ar history of the JD Power Cus- The surveys measured now they felt after a year driving their cars about the way they were treated by their dealerships and about the repair and reliability records of the vehicles being ranked third since 1993 off” haspaid ‘ The three Japanese lines have been at or near the top of the list highest truck score in the fourth place in a tie with Gerafter many’s Mercedes-Ben- z ed conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't have received a fair trial vindicated him in his belief that Oswald’s killer — Ruby — couldn’t either Ruby “was railroaded in a kangaroo court" Belli said ar tomer Satisfaction Index: 181 out of a possible 240 US car brand It fell to ured by breast surgery to disrobe before a jury to win a case The woman won damages in 1949 When the Warren Commission Report oi) the Kennedy assassination was released Belli said its light-truc- 1993 Saturn the General Motors small-ca- r unit that has sucCorp ceeded in large part because of its emphasis on friendly dealers was once again the top-ratno-hag- faction into the fabric and fiber of and it their entire organizations r 1 car line in the survey Nissan’s Infiniti line was last ranked on top in 1991 in a tie Belli would do almost anything even ask a client disfig- 2Nd ANNiVERSARy CelEbRATioN SaIe dominaing Toyota’s k tion as the top line Toyota was ranked second followed by Chevrolet’s Geo line and a tie between Chrysler and Pontiac Honda’s popular Odyssey minivan received the five-ye- vandalism He began his career defending insurance companies for SS0 a week then moved into criminal law In the late 1930s Belli became well known for his pioneering use of “demonstrative evidence" after his representation of an injured cable-ca- r grip-ma- n The client won his case after Belli dragged a large model into of a court Scrapbook Supplies The marketing firm surveyed 32117 car and light truck owners who registered new vehicles in February March and April 1993 mm 34 Federal Avenue 753-115- A Boutique of Distinctive Handcrafted Gifts 0 j'LbniT s spread from mothers to children ' VANCOUVER British Columbia (AP) — The spread of HIV from mother to child has been cut in half in the United States over fie past two years since doctors routinely began giving an AIDS-fightidrug to infected pregnant AIDS yomen The discovery that the drug said that before AZT 21 percent At the 11th International this week doctors from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed the impact of this change on the spread of ng AZT reduces AIDS transmission (juring childbirth has been one of most Important breakthroughs in the brief history of the epidemic AZT immediately became standard treatment for pregnant women when this effect of the drug was learned in 1994 HIV-infect- ed Con- ference on AIDS meeting here RJ Simonds and others Dr of children born to infected women caught the virus Since then this has dropped to 10 cent However per- researchers hope they can do much better still in part by developing better drug therapies 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION (nit t ' ' '' Vi— — — riucnxo— rrmoa — rman Not cl earn epm cn Sunday All ijftcga - 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