Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...risk that a newspaper will be scared to print a story because it might be sued, or that sources will dry up if reporters are forced to, turn over their notes, carries little weight with a majority on the high court-especially when it is balanced against a strong interest like a fair trial. Often jealous of their prerogatives, trial court judges are even less sympathetic. They tend to reject First Amendment claims that might get in the way of the judicial process, like subpoenaing a reporter to testify in a criminal case. Some judges also bar reporters from pretrial...
...teenylobbers like Tracy Austin and Pam Shriver, U.S. tennis this season would be nothing but schmaltzy mixed doubles. First it was Jimmy Connors wedding his onetime Playboy playmate. Then last week, Chris Evert, long a top-ranker in women's play and once that way in Connors' court as well, wed British Davis Cup Player John Lloyd in a home-town candlelight ceremony in Fort Lauderdale. The 24-year-old queen of the base lines sounded blushingly unprofessional. Said the woman who has won Wimbledon three times and the U.S. Open four times: "This is only going to happen once...
...money that is available to be spent has been expanding by perhaps 6% to 7%. Reason: there is a proliferation of new financial devices that effectively enlarge the money supply but are not measured by the old standards. One of these innovations ran into problems last week. The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that automatic transfers of funds from savings to checking accounts violate current banking laws; but the transfers will be allowed at least until Jan. 1, to give Congress time to liberalize the laws. There are many other sources of liquid assets. The increasingly popular money...
...world is familiar with Sirica's reading of that letter in open court. What it does not know is that below the dead-pan was an emotion that approached glee. "This is it," Sirica allowed himself to think in prosecutorial tones. "This is what I've been hoping for." As it turned out, members of the Administration were not the only ones on trial. Sirica's unbridled temper and his less than brilliant reputation were large targets for the defense attorneys. But the old pugilist had not forgotten how to feint and duck. He remained imperturbable, retired to a neutral...
...surrender the tapes, he would have been held in contempt. Fines of $25,000 to $50,000 would have been levied every day. In the book's most belligerent section, the judge wishes that Nixon had indeed been indicted and gone to trial. If convicted in Sirica's court, he would have been sentenced to jail, regardless of the psychological consequences to the country. The judge, whose penchant for stiff sentences earned him the sobriquet "Maximum John," also regrets that he had to rule against public release of the White House tapes. They were, he concludes, "the most intimate...