Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just 25 ft. apart in the federal district courtroom in Manhattan. Each was balding, with a long, lined face and piercing, deep-set brown eyes. They looked like twins and were in fact brothers -and one, a confessed Soviet spy, was accusing the other of spying too. Cried the accuser, Jack Soble, 58, from the witness chair: "For me it is a personal tragedy to sit here with a brother-with me it is not a case of publicity. I want to make it clear that for 4½ years I have been begging him to tell." The accused, Robert...
...courtroom did not hold much future for a scrawny fellow with a funny eye. In 1945, when Dictator Getúlio Vargas fell, another way presented itself: politics, where offbeat appearance can sometimes be an advantage. "When he first got the idea, I was very dubious," Eloá says. In his first race, in 1947, he fetched up 47th on the list of candidates for 45 São Paulo city council seats. Only when the Communist Party was outlawed and 14 of the winners were eliminated did Quadros get a seat...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). A custody fight turns into a murder investigation in "Trial Without Jury," a courtroom drama presented live...
Rivaling Jackie Kennedy for the headlines were the two generals: blond, flint-eyed Maurice Challe, 55, onetime commander of the French army in Algeria, and balding, tight-lipped Andre Zeller, 63. In an ornate, oak-paneled courtroom of the ancient Palais de Justice, both went on trial for leading the short-lived April rebellion against France and Charles de Gaulle...
Total Victory. An air of curious restraint hung over the courtroom. Not once was Challe's objective clearly stated, nor at any time were high-ranking members of the conspiracy identified by name, except the few arrested with Challe. Both prosecution and defense appeared hesitant and embarrassed about probing too deeply. And army witnesses for the defense made a declaration of faith by saluting the two prisoners in the dock. General Jean-Etienne Valluy, who preceded Challe as Central European commander at SHAPE, admitted: "If I had been mixed up in this affair, I would have told them...