Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points, the court limited its review to their contention that Edward Partin, a longtime crony of Hoffa who acted as a part-time guard at his hotel during the Nashville trial, had been released from jail in Louisiana to spy on Hoffa for the Government. Partin's courtroom testimony that Hoffa had bragged about bribing a Nashville juror, the Teamster boss claimed, was based in effect on "unreasonable search and seizure" and violated the privacy of his deliberations with his lawyer...
...litigious reader ready to sue a newspaper for libel at the drop of an insult has become a familiar courtroom character. But this time the roles were reversed. The editor was suing one of his readers. And to add to the novelty, the editor won. Bill McGaw, owner, editor, publisher and principal reporter of the Southwesterner claimed that his monthly journal of Western lore had been damaged by the actions of Alamogordo, N. Mex., Furniture Dealer A. A. Webster Jr.. a member of the John Birch Society. And a jury agreed -to the amount...
Throughout the trial, the courtroom was packed with spectators openly sympathetic to Webster. Some of them may have kept busy after hours as well. McGaw received obscene telephone calls at his hotel. "They were so vile," he recalls, "that I couldn't repeat them to a Marine drill sergeant-and my own language is pretty salty." Victory should help him bear up under the insults. But it may be some time before McGaw can collect his $20,000. Last week Webster announced his intention of appealing the decision...
Packing the courtroom, and often making demonstrations outside it, were scores of emotional patients and their kin who believe that Krebiozen has saved their lives. The jury of four housewives, two saleswomen, a stenographer, a printer, a retired machinist, a maintenance man, a truck driver and a janitor heard more than 4,000,000 words of testimony so full of conflicting claims that Judge Julius J. Hoffman declared: "This case bristles with issues of veracity...
...past weeks a nation of rotten drivers was informed that it was politically and medically ignorant as well. Given a Citizenship Test highlighted with courtroom dramas and political-convention footage, 41% of CBS's sample could not identify either of their U.S. Senators. The National Health Test concluded with the news that 75% of Americans cannot name even three of cancer's seven danger signals,* and that two-fifths cling to the schoolboy belief that they can get venereal disease from toilet seats...