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...amendment, but he worked actively behind the scenes for it. For the opposition, Dirksen set about swinging wavering Republicans back into line. His technique differs considerably from the arm-twisting tactics made famous by Lyndon Johnson. "Senator Dirksen doesn't work this way," explained New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, who supported the amendment. "He takes a little longer. He does it with oleaginous applications of one sort or another." On the eve of the vote, Dirksen felt certain that his applications had been effective. "I brought three lost sheep back into the fold," he confided...
...Judge," said Farmer Clifford McMurphy, the foreman, "I wouldn't say we've made any progress. We've been hung at the same almost from the outset, judge. It's been right constant...
Next day the jurors went at it again. They deadlocked, eight for conviction on a manslaughter charge, four for acquittal. They requested dismissal, but the judge asked them to try again. At length Foreman Clifford McMurphy declared an irrevocable deadlock: two still held out against conviction...
Last week, by a vote of 2 to 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati reversed Weinman's opinion. To dissenting Judge George Edwards, a former Detroit police commissioner, the record showed a "flagrant" denial of Sheppard's constitutional rights. But to Judges Clifford O'Sullivan and Harry Phillips that was pure assumption. While praising Weinman's "commendable concern," they concluded-that Cleveland's admittedly "shabby" reporting was still not enough to prejudice Sheppard's jurors. Moreover, they went on to virtually sweep aside the entire bar position on the effects of prejudicial...
...days without dieting. Last week, after a 13-week trial in a Brooklyn courtroom, a federal jury found the producer, Manhattan's Drug Research Corp., its president and its advertising agency guilty of conspiring to defraud the public. The judgment against the ad agency-Kastor, Hilton, Chesley, Clifford & Atherton, Inc.-was the first ever made against an agency for promoting a fraudulent product. The decision could result in fines and imprisonment for Drug Research's president and fines against the ad agency on 41 separate counts...