Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Handshake. Only a few hours before, 31-year-old Matt McKeon had been relaxed, almost cheerful as he awaited the decision of the six Marine officers and the Navy doctor who had sat as his judges. His demeanor was an understandable result of a week of remarkable courtroom dramatics. McKeon himself had provided the first highlight. Taking the stand in his own defense, he made a convincing witness as he told the court that his only concern, even as he led his platoon through a tidal swamp, had been for his troops-that if they failed to learn the need...
...pleaded with Marines, past and present, to come forth with testimony about their own experiences in the Parris Island boondocks. Within minutes the Parris Island switchboard was alight; ten operators went on special duty; by the next night 300 telephone calls and 300 telegrams had been received. In the courtroom, Berman demanded-and won-the right to inspect the answers to a questionnaire on training practices sent out by the Corps after the Parris Island tragedy. The overwhelming verdict of the 27,000 Marines polled: tough training should not only be continued, but in some cases intensified...
...staid Swiss capital of Bern last week, plainclothesmen roamed the hotels, and scores of policemen accompanied by equally alert police dogs stood guard over the picturesque old town hall. Inside the town hall, which had been temporarily transformed into a courtroom, still more police kept a sharp eye on a polyglot crowd composed of some 120 newsmen, dozens of Iron Curtain refugees, and "observers" from Communist Rumania, China and Yugoslavia...
Unlike other undergraduate activities, debating, by necessity, predicates an absence of publicity. Once the focus of a good deal of student interest, most home debates today draw few if any spectators. Where Sanders was occasionally filled for one of the annual Triangular Debates with Yale and Princeton, the Ames Courtroom last Friday night held no more than 100 spectators. "Today, people can read about the great question of the day, or listen over the raido, more easily than they could in 1900," one student explained. "But while an audience would be good for the ego, it isn't necessary...
...Negative of Eisenhower's farm record, Yale defeated a Princeton team in Princeton and a Harvard team at New Haven. A second Princeton group lost a split decision to Robert M. O'Neil '56, Jared M. Diamond '58, and David P. Bryden '57, on the Negative, in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall...