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Press photographers, who have long been barred from most U.S. courtrooms,* are now clamoring to get inside. They argue that small cameras, faster film that needs no flashbulbs, and quieter shutters have outmoded the legal view that photography would distract witnesses and degrade the court. Last week the photographers showed some persuasive proof...
Such talent for detail, priceless in a staff officer, can be disastrous in a commander, and some senior NATO officers were worried that Gruenther would let details distract him from broader thinking. "But we found that he is able to clear his mind and his desk with lightning speed," says one SHAPE officer. "He never abandoned the detail; he simply operates brilliantly on two levels instead...
...thing rolling. Let one customer get his first premium, and the whole community is going to hear about it. For us, that's better than any ad over television." But the stamp plan's biggest foe, giant Safeway, calls it nothing but "a shell game to distract the consumer from the fact that she is paying higher prices." Because Safeway met stamp competition by slashing prices, the U.S. Justice Department slapped an antitrust suit against the chain, charged it with selling goods below cost (TIME, July...
Most Masters seemed to agree that the main argument against the 1 p.m. weekday permission was that it would distract too many students who wanted to study in the afternoon from doing...
After the demonstration was over, without a single flashbulb fired, the "judges" turned in a split decision. "Very smoothly done," said U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Herbert F. Goodrich. "Distracting a bit, but so is a pretty girl ... It [might] drive witnesses crazy." But another "judge," University of Michigan Law Professor Charles W. Joiner, found the picture-taking "did not distract in any way." He said he would be in favor of relaxing the Bar Association's canon forbidding photography in courtrooms provided that the photographers "do not try to tell the judge how to run his court...