Word: cab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claude L. Weaver '65, a Dunster House student currently on a year's leave, and two other civil rights workers have been held in a Jackson, Miss., jail since the night after Christmas on a charge of strong-arm robbery stemming from a dispute over a cab fare...
...create the exact details for the jury, Belli used an enormous aerial photo of the intersection where the collision occurred. He questioned a parade of 29 witnesses, spotting each person's location precisely on the photo, to prove that the fire siren must have been audible in the cab of the truck. Then he diagramed the positions of other witnesses, who testified to the truck's excessive speed. In the end, only the most unimaginative juror had not relived several times over the traumatic crunch that Belli contended sent his client into a mental institution. The award...
Point-Blank. During the fast-breaking hours and days that followed, Dallas newsmen, familiar with the city, managed to beat visiting correspondents repeatedly. OSWALD'S ROOM YIELDS MAP OF BULLET'S PATH headlined the News in a copyrighted story; the News also interviewed the cab driver who had taken Oswald home after the shooting, copyrighted the driver's account...
...Maclntyre-planned $237 million refinancing plan that will enable it to take delivery on 40 new Boeing trijet 727s next year. Also in Eastern's favor is the recent decision by the Civil Aeronautics Board to remove Northeast Airlines from the New York-Miami run. Though the CAB order is now being tested in court, the chances are good that within a few months Eastern will have only one competitor, rather than two, on the lucrative sunshine...
Government lawyers, well aware that juries are prone to be generous toward an injured plaintiff, figured that the FAA might be held partially responsible anyway, whatever the CAB said. Last spring they agreed to pay 24% of all damages that were awarded. But FAA Chief Najeeb Halaby protested. After all, he argued, his agency had been exonerated by the CAB...