Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CASE OF LIBEL, adapted by Henry Denker from Louis (My Life in Court) Nizer's account of the Quentin Reynolds-Westbrook Pegler libel fracas, is tame theater fare, but courtroom drama buffs may relish it, and Van Heflin is a peppery paladin of justice...
President Craig, 54, is a man with a self-imposed mission: to improve the layman's understanding of law and lawyers. "People are shy of the law and shy of lawyers," he says. "There always has to be a loser in the courtroom, and that means there is a built-in disappointment connected with the law." What is called for, he thinks, is "education as to the fundamentals, the historic principles of American government, so that people can develop an understanding of how the laws came about...
...Lawyer Louis Nizer's bestseller, My Life in Court. The case, though veiled, is Newsman Quentin Reynolds' winning libel suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler. Since the element of suspense is nonexistent, the result is fairly tame and lethargic, except for those who relish every predictable cliche of courtroom stagecraft...
...only ten years has built a diversified $100 million empire in machinery, ships, electronics, plastics, oil, and filling stations, has been forced to sell off some of his choicest holdings to Munich Banker Rudolf Münemann. At week's end Stinnes was brought into a crowded Bremen courtroom to answer a $4.5 million suit brought by a German mines association, which is trying to recover special compensations that the association claims were wrongly paid four years ago to one of his holding companies. Loss of the full amount could threaten Stinnes' cash-shy empire with bankruptcy...
...learn of the conspiracy to overthrow the government of Nigeria by violence, for Nigeria has been one of the most stable of Africa's new nations. But it seemed almost incredible that the ringleader could have been the bespectacled chief prisoner in the dock of a Lagos courtroom last week-the respected Chief Obafemi Awolowo...