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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emerson, a municipal court judge in Downey, Calif., finds the speakerphone invaluable for getting a brief piece of testimony from a policeman, parole officer or technical expert. It cuts down on delays while a witness is summoned, and it also cuts to a bare minimum the time required of the witness. If there is ever any objection by either side in a case, or by the witness, he is made to come to court. And the speakerphone is never used for pivotal or major testimony. Also, Judge Emerson rarely tries it with a jury. On the few occasions that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Hello, Justice Calling | 4/5/1968 | See Source »

...loser, but because he no longer has any stomach for the fight. He even seemed disdainful of the battle. As he confided to an aide with all too evident relief after the Washington breakfast: "I never really wanted this anyway." Hours after his withdrawal, Nelson Rockefeller emplaned for a brief vacation at Laurance Rockefeller's hotel on Puerto Rico's Dorado Beach. It was at that opulent retreat, in November 1967, that New York's Governor drew up and promulgated a strategy by means of which he hoped a moderate Republican could capture the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The Lost Leader | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

Fourthly, your article suffers from invalid information. Your brief stay at Shaw and your interaction with less than one-third of the students and a few faculty members and administrators do not give you the right to make any generalizations about Shaw in its entirety, its methods of teaching or its most respected faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: . . . AT SHAW UNIVERSITY | 3/27/1968 | See Source »

...After a brief period of hospitalization in the U.S. in 1966, Ohiri was released so that he could return to Nigeria to live out the rest of his life with his family. On the plane back he tried to write a collection of memoirs that he had been planning, but his once athletic hands could not even grip the pencil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The History Of Harvard Sports | 3/27/1968 | See Source »

...these prints (and they are almost always 16mm prints, due to the expense of 35mm printing) came into the country or into existence is a question without precise answer. Many are reduction prints from 35mm, made quickly by people tangential to the distribution profession who had brief access to a print during theatrical release. Many others are known as "dupes," referring to prints made directly from other positive prints; a "dupe" print can usually be detected by its quality: contact printing positive to positive invariably results in higher grain, higher contrast, and consequent lack of image clarity and detail...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: The Establishment of a Film Archive: Search for the Lost Films | 3/26/1968 | See Source »

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