Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relative, and the latter told all to the secret police. To many Westerners, the resulting arrests had an anti-Semitic ring, for Jewish names were clearly involved. Protested Izvestia: "It is not Jews, Russians, Tartars or Ukrainians who will stand trial. 'Criminals will stand trial." In the courtroom last week, Roifman, Shakerman and three others-two members of the economic police and a men's wear factory official -were sentenced to be shot, their accomplices in capitalism to long prison terms...
...wants the same result. In the law, someone has to lose whenever a case goes to judgment." Women fare better in less strenuous appellate work, says Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Despite male objections that an attractive woman has an "unfair" advantage in the courtroom, Medina recalls a case where the court was so absorbed in the legal aspects of a young woman attorney's case that the men accepted her simply as a lawyer. "When she was finished," says Medina, "she went right out and had a baby. We men hadn...
...expected to have any sense," shrugs Jewel Rogers Lafontant, a statuesque, beautiful Chicago criminal lawyer whose father and grandfather were attorneys before her. As a Negro and a woman at the bar, Mrs. Lafontant-who has fought cases all the way to the Supreme Court-has probably faced more courtroom scowls in 18 years of trial work than almost any other U.S. attorney-male or female. Says she: "The law is an excellent profession for women. Perhaps they have more idealism than men." And, she smiles, they have one unbeatable advantage over the male: "We are naturally loquacious...
Nothing is much better than all right in this black-and-white morality play adapted from Howard Fast's novel The Winston Affair. Mitchum plays Mitchum with laconic assurance, and a cast of veteran character actors is warmed up for a first-rate courtroom drama, a la Caine Mutiny, that only makes it to second. Some of the fault must lie with Director Guy Hamilton, who borrows his pace from those fans that whir lazily overhead in every tropical sinkhole. But justice triumphs, and the made-in-England script gives the saving final testimony to Trevor Howard (so rational...
Enthralled by Lawyers. Johnson's father once served as county judge, and young Frank loved to sit in the local courtroom and listen to lawyers argue their cases. "I was enthralled," he remembers. His rise in the law was swift: he went from small-town practitioner to U.S. Attorney in 1953, and two years later President Eisenhower named him a district judge. He was then 37, one of the youngest federal judges in the nation...