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...reform-minded attorney trusted by the convict leaders, walked into the midst of the rebels. The prisoners had created an extremely efficient paramilitary organization. The leaders had commandeered a megaphone, and they dictated a list of demands, which had been neatly typed by inmates seated at a long bench. The hostages were encircled and carefully guarded?both against escape and from any harm by more hostile inmates?by a ring of grim convicts, standing with arms interlocked. Some wore football helmets; others were masked by towels and rags...
After 34 years on the nation's highest bench-the third longest tenure of any Justice-Hugo Lafayette Black, 85, last week informed the President that he was resigning immediately because of failing health. Thus facing with characteristic directness what his mind and conscience commanded, Black ended a career that, by virtue of its length and intellectual power, has placed him among the handful of the nation's very greatest jurists...
...more unusual Alfred Hitchcock double features. There on a park bench alongside the Thames sat the great director himself, holding a head that was a duplicate of his own. Actually the head will be used to carry on the Hitchcock tradition of including a shot of himself in each of his pictures; it belongs to a rotund dummy "victim" that will be found floating face up on the Thames in his 55th movie, Frenzy...
...known, Fleeta Drumbo and John Clutchette, stripped off their shirts in court in an attempt to expose bruises from beatings that they said they had received after the uprising. Two days later, in a tense, spectator-filled courtroom newly equipped with a bulletproof barrier between spectators and the bench, another hearing took place. When Judge Carl Allen repeatedly denied defense motions to investigate the beating charge, Mrs. Doris Maxwell, Clutchette's mother, screamed, "You ain't no honorable judge!" Bailiffs, later reinforced by helmeted San Francisco policemen, moved into the spectator section. A fight broke out, and four...
...Florida Judge William Frye III, a former policeman, finally smelled a rat. Pressed by the judges, the police admitted that it had all been a put-up job, a "field trip" arranged in cooperation with the college to show the judges the view from the other side of the bench. The bruiser who punched Judge Dean was a local reporter, William Kroger, who had volunteered his services. The two women were the wife and secretary of one of the arresting officers...