Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with all their rambling language and flashing anger. Telly Savalas, a comparatively unknown actor, was superb as Luciano-full of gutter cynicism, arrogance, brutality, and yet at moments pathetic. The show's spontaneity derived partly from the fact that the lawyers involved were real, some of the best courtroom performers in New York (Richard Steel William Geoghan Jr., Charles Haydon,' Benedict Ginsberg), who ad-libbed much of their argument. On the griddle this week: Huey Long. Later: Arnold Rothstein, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, and former New York Mayor James J. Walker...
...With no wish to persecute one man, it is still sadly necessary to say it: In that courtroom we have suffered a small, an intimate, a personal Pearl Harbor-but not, unhappily, an insignificant...
...many-columned courtroom where Powers was brought to trial after 108 days in solitary confinement had seen history made before: in the days when it was still the Noblemen's Club. Pushkin and Tolstoy relaxed there, later the bodies of Lenin and Stalin lay there in state. But Powers seemed unmindful of history, and the faraway cities of which he talked were apparently little more than dots on the map to him. A man who by his testimony belonged to no political party and had never voted. Powers was simply an expert airplane chauffeur describing his trade...
...dramatic launching was dramatically announced. Into the hushed Moscow courtroom where the fate of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers was being deliberated rushed a Soviet official, with word that the U.S.S.R. had just orbited a 10,143-lb. animal-carrying satellite...
...Corey and two friends had put up $30,000 each to lease an old lumber warehouse near Portland and fit it up for storing grain. In three years the partners harvested profits of $83,000 apiece. Last week, too sick from bleeding ulcers to be present in the courtroom, Corey was convicted by a federal jury in Portland of violating conflict-of-interest laws...