Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in the wake of the blasts against him from Capitol Hill, Judge Charles Wyzanski seemed unwontedly humble. In a face-to-face meeting, he shook hands with Eddie McCormack and apologized publicly for past disputes. "It was really undesirable and uncharitable of me," he said in his courtroom. In Washington, John McCormack declared that the war was over-at least until Charles Wyzanski kicks up another controversy...
...hundred newsmen in the small Jerusalem courtroom, and millions of televiewers outside, last week stared at a man in a glass cage. What they had expected was the embodiment of evil, a monster accused of having participated in the murder of 6,000,000 innocent men, women and children...
Short of granting interviews with Eichmann, the Israeli government outdid itself to accommodate the visitors. Censorship was lifted on all trial copy. In and around the courtroom building gleamed $350,000 worth of new transmission facilities, including banks of teletypes staffed by Jerusalem housewives hastily recruited and trained. Each guest was equipped with a headset radio on which he could follow the trial in four languages-French, English, German, Hebrew. If a reporter missed anything, he could refer to a daily mimeographed record of the court proceedings-also in four languages, plus a summary in Yiddish. Even the trial...
...Stops. Long before the press corps actually got in to the courtroom to cover the trial, the Eichmann case was heralded, exploited, rehashed and explored with exhaustive thoroughness. In the U.S., papers that did not serialize Eichmann's life or revisit the Third Reich ranged far afield to fill space. Some went hunting for concentration camp survivors; the Denver Post interviewed 25-year-old Robert Kaye, who served when he was seven as Eichmann's orderly in a camp near Mannheim. Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror interviewed a bevy of teenagers in Queens, among them...
Speaking to a full house in the Ames Courtroom, the popularizer of parapsychology, J. B. Rhine of Duke University, maintained that although the existence of ESP has been "reasonably well established," experts are still far from understanding the causes or even the basic nature of parapsychic behavior...