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Some jurors, by dint of personality, have made stronger impressions than others. Ruth C. Gould, 57, the chic Government-loan specialist, seems to have set the sartorial pattern for her colleagues. She displays a varied and stylish wardrobe, and her example has apparently encouraged the others to spruce up. Gould is a leader in other respects as well. She has riveted her attention on the complex testimony, and jury watchers predict her election as forewoman...
...lawyers like Mason, Hawkins and Preston routinely best prosecutors and private attorneys alike by dint of imaginative research and brilliant courtroom tactics. Without the aid of the TV scriptwriters, though, a lone practitioner or a small firm is rarely a match for a large adversary backed by a platoon of associates in the firm and a big reference library. Nor can small outfits usually afford the high annual fees electronics firms charge for use of computers that can search their prodigious memories in seconds and spew out legal precedents...
...know, deportations of Jews in Hungary and Slovakia did not stop by dint of "important Allied officials" or articles in Swiss newspapers. They stopped either when there were no more Jews to deport, it became unfeasible to continue deportation or when the war ended. The plight of the Jews was not exactly an important concern of the Allies...
...REISCHAUER is preeminent among scholars in his ability to express complex issues in a comprehensible manner. In his new book, Reischauer has chosen to advocate the modification of our educational system to produce individuals who consider themselves to be members of an international society. If others have failed by dint of words to sway the public on this issue, Reischauer may succeed...
SMOOTH, well-connected, brainy, successful in all that they had done, they reached enviable positions of power in American political life. By dint of hard work, some luck and fierce loyalty to Richard Nixon, they had earned the President's trust. Yet last week they were a forlorn group, implicated in willfully or naively subverting the political process. The men involved in the Watergate scandal include several who are household names and others who may soon yearn for the obscurity that they once had. Among them...