Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have your confession." Grajales answered: "I signed that paper because I had seen three weeks of solitary confinement with frequent beatings. I had to sign it. Now, before God, I swear that there is not one word of truth in my so-called confession." Silence hung in the courtroom, thick as pitch. The prosecutor squirmed...
Government officials hurriedly convened in local Falangist headquarters, saw to it that the courtroom was packed with Falangists and plainclothesmen as the second day's proceedings opened. Ordinary Vitorians could not get in. Secretly the trial was rushed to an end that spelled defeat for the prosecution. Last week, although the prosecution had demanded severe sentences for all, 15 of the accused were acquitted or released with light sentences that they were deemed to have already served. Two were sentenced to six years in prison. When the defense lawyers came out, an old woman seized Lacort's hand...
Racing on from climax to climax in a Roman courtroom, the unfolding story of Italy's sensational Montesi affair seemed more and more to be leaving behind its protagonists: obscure young Wilma Montesi, whose dead body was found on a beach near Ostia nearly a year ago, and Silvano Muto, the editor who stood on trial for spreading "false and adulterated news" about her death. To the millions gobbling up each day's revelations of debauchery in high places, the fate of Wilma and Muto seemed of secondary importance compared to the speculations swirling about the "Marchese...
...solemnly of affairs of state-taxes and governmental reform, his government's support of EDC, the dangers of Communism and neo-Fascism. But the immediate threat to his new regime involved none of these, nor did it lie within the walls of the chamber. It came from a courtroom a few blocks away, where, as Scelba urged the Deputies to confirm his Cabinet, there unfolded an unsavory story of corruption in high places, of playgirls and midnight orgies and expensive decadence revolving around the figure of a marchese-come-lately named Ugo Montagna...
...also tied to the set, and cannot jump around the world from Manhattan to Hawaii to London with the ease of their radio rivals. Veteran Irna Phillips, who writes radio's Guiding Light, has to be restrained on the TV screen from a tendency toward writing in big courtroom scenes. Says Procter & Gamble's TV Director William Craig: "We hold her down to one or two a year. They're just too darn expensive...