Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patience at an end, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. marched into a Topeka, Kans. courtroom last week and got a temporary injunction to stop an old trick that was costing it money. The trick is the uncompleted long-distance call, by which subscribers get their message across via a prearranged code and hang up without paying a dime. Like Illinois Bell Telephone Co., which estimated its losses at $400,000 annually (TIME, April 16), Southwestern Bell was losing heavily...
...schools should encourage their students to enter the field of criminal law and should include training emphasizing "life in the courtroom" as a part of their curricula, Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz contended at a meeting of the Law Students Bar Association last night...
...manager with a looping right to the eye. Then a station attendant, a real big guy, moved in to square off with Presley. But Elvis threw a Sunday punch that grazed the bruiser's puss. A cop then enforced an armistice. Next day a judge, in a courtroom twittering with Presley's bobby-sox worshippers (several with babes in arms), decided that the gas-station pair were the aggressors, socked them with fines totaling $40. Cheers rocked the court. Elvis fought his way out through screaming admirers, went home and relaxed by playing with his puppy dog, Sweet...
...misery," said a defense lawyer in a tense Poznan courtroom last week, "stems from the fact that we have not told the truth for many years and that now we must tell it." Then, as the court handed down a series of lenient sentences (18 months to 6 years, and some suspensions) on young men charged with the heinous crime of fighting against the Communist authority, all Poland began to feel that the time might soon come when the truth about Poland would be told. Said an old Communist, blighted by years of purgings: "This is the beginning...
...eleven days the grave-faced master of the Italian Line's Andrea Doria waited while the young third mate of the Swedish-American Line's Stockholm told a story in a Manhattan courtroom that implied that the Italians were to blame for the July collision that sank Andrea Doria (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week came turn for Captain Piero Calamai, 58, to take the stand, and his anxiety still showed as he sat with bent shoulders, pale and tired-looking...