Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...huge gingerbread building in The Hague last week, 15 elderly jurists strode solemnly into the courtroom of the International Court of Justice to resume their deliberate deliberation of some of the world's less pressing problems. While the crises in Laos, Berlin, Suez and Cuba get settled-if at all-in the harsher corridors of power politics, the World Court contents itself with less basic disputes. The reason: no major power has so far entrusted the court with the decisions that most matter...
Charles E. Whittaker, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and his two associates last night awarded top honors in the Harvard Law School Ames Competition to the Jaffe Club before a packed courtroom in Austin Hall...
More than half an hour before the sentencing, the courtroom--which holds around 300--was filled, and betwen 75-100 persons had to be turned away. They were diverted by a pacifist-anarchist who emerged from the courthouse a few minutes after the sentencing began, announcing that "it took three policemen to carry me out. I went limp in the elevator...
...contrary. Four TV cameras will play over the courtroom, making videotapes of all the proceedings. The television concession has been given to a New York company. Special seats are reserved for government guests; the world press has 474 seats and a battery of mechanical aids. The national tourist corporation even has places for the tourists who will come to watch...
...again this week to fix punishment, Finch could get death on his first-degree murder count, Carole life on her second-degree charge. But on the conspiracy count alone, the jury could sentence them both to the gas chamber at San Quentin. As the two old lovers left the courtroom last week, Finch suddenly took the stunned Carole in his arms, nuzzled her dyed red hair, and whispered: "I love you, Carole. I'm sorry." She turned away...