Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, Chicago papers seemed equally determined to convict a suspected killer. TERRORIST BARRY COOK ADMITS SLAYING WOMAN IN PARK ran one banner headline that was only part of a noisy press chorus demanding swift court retribution for the crime. This sort of coverage did not abate until Cook's trial jury, obviously unresponsive to newspaper suggestion, acquitted the defendant...
Legal Support. Cook's release despite the energetic newspaper campaign to have him executed, is cited by defenders of the press's habit of trying cases in print. At discussions on press freedom and fair trial, Managing Editor Robert Notson of the Portland Oregonian has repeatedly and vainly asked lawyers and judges to name one occasion on which hostile newspaper publicity helped convict an innocent...
...would not ask the news media to change their practices until we in the legal profession admit that our own house is in need of cleaning," says James R. Thompson, assistant state's attorney for Cook County (Chicago), Laws prohibiting prejudicial pre-trial talk by court and law-enforcement officials are already on the books in 30 states, and these statutes reflect a 50-year-old canon of the American Bar Association. But the A.B.A. has never invoked its canon...
...mile relay, Bob Cook, Dave Mc Kelvey, Frank Haggerty, and Huvelle recorded a sparkling 3:22.6, four seconds faster than a record set last year. In the two-mile relay, Frank Snowden, Bob Stempson, William Burns, and Baker topped off the Army meet with a record-breaking 8:08.8. The time slashed an astounding 16 seconds off a record...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 11--Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak defended the rescue of white hostages in the Congo as a last recourse undertaken after Congo rebels threatened to cook them alive...