Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police with submachine guns were on the roof of the Palais de Justice, at the doors, and inside the dim-lit gilt and paneled courtroom. On the dais sat a nine-man tribunal consisting of three French generals, three magistrates, two civilians and an admiral. In the dock last week appeared bullnecked, tough Edmond Jouhaud. 57. a former general who served as air force chief of staff, most recently No. 2 chieftain of the Secret Army Organization in Algeria, where last month he was ignominiously arrested without a fight...
Semi-saturated with sex, psychiatry and courtroom procedure, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder had a surefire formula for bestsellerdom. Hornstein's Boy has not. A novel about a senatorial campaign, it is packed with nothing more exciting than paper dolls and paper arguments clipped from the magazine section of a Sunday newspaper...
...divorcee emerged from the courtroom, holding tightly to her sons' arms. She made a wrong turn, which took her to the Marriage Bureau (which is, indeed, the next stop for many Reno divorcees). Leaving by the rear door, she stepped into her lawyer's car and was whisked off to the airport for the short hop to San Francisco. There she and her sons waited for 3½ hours. Then Mary Rockefeller boarded a plane for her native Philadelphia-where she and Nelson Rockefeller had been married 31 years, eight months and 19 days before...
Despite the tension in the courtroom, four defendants remained calm and moved their lips in what seemed to be silent prayer. The impulse was natural: the four were robed and cowled Capuchin friars, accused with three laymen of operating a spectacular extortion-murder ring in racket-ridden Sicily...
...lovers, leftists and believers in the rule of law both inside Mexico and from around the world protested; the López Mateos regime finally brought Siqueiros to trial in January. In a tiny, dingy courtroom the artist stole the show with a three-hour speech ranging from his youthful years in politics to the present panorama of Mexican art, to the endless betrayal of the 1910 Mexican revolution by every regime down to and including the present. It was a stirring offense, but not much of a defense, especially considering several personal insults Siqueiros aimed at the presiding judge...