Word: alongers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brag about besides the Mississippi River. Today, it seems that every place is willing to suffer almost anything to get its picture on television or into films. Chicago, merely to smuggle itself into a new John Belushi movie, has just authorized the film company to tie up vital traffic along Lake Michigan for hours and send a car crashing through the enormous windows of the Daley Center Building...
Judges share the blame for the courts' delay. In Pittsburgh, criminal judges have almost four times the caseload of those in The Bronx, but dispose of cases five times as fast. Why the difference? Because some judges take an active role in pushing a case along from the moment it is filed. They enforce strict deadlines on filing motions and papers and limit pretrial discovery; in short they stop lawyers from delaying. In other courts, judges sit back and let lawyers set the pace by handing out postponements freely...
...makes for speed. Trials without jury are brief; the more defendants who opt for them-and most do-the faster the Philadelphia courts can dispose of their huge case loads. Judge White likes to "move the business" right along; he hears three or four cases a day, disposes of 15 a week. The day begins at 9:30 or 10, when the judge, clad in his black robe, enters his small, drab courtroom through its single door. White says he deplores the lack of a private entryway to his chambers; it means he has to come in the same...
White is vexed only by interruptions in his schedule. He is clearly irritated one morning when a defense lawyer brings along eight witnesses to testify in a purse-snatching case. The judge complains that it will take him all day to try the case. "All day" turns out to be five hours. After hearing the witnesses, White says he cannot be sure whether the defendant is guilty or innocent, so he has to find him not guilty, using the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard. The prosecutor says he has witnesses ready for another trial, but White curtly rebuffs...
There are, along the way, some marvelous set pieces, most especially when Zaza is taking lessons in how a man sits in a chair or butters toast...