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...Loch Ness monster, a wicked old mossback called "Ol' Geronimo," who "goes 30 Ibs. if he's an ounce." * Next door at the Belair Resort, Proprietor W.C. Jefferson laments the passing of Charlie, an 8-lb. pet bass that would nose up to the motel's dock for lunch. When one native let it drop that he had recently pulled a 16 pounder out of a "special hole" in the river, Sam's eyes pinwheeled. "Where's the hole?" he demanded. "Where?" The native just smiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Magic on the Withlacoochee | 5/3/1971 | See Source »

...raining Thursday afternoon in Cambridge. Harry Parker emerged from the boathouse and strode onto the slippery Newell dock with a smug smirk on his lips...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Adams Cup-A Cup Up for Grabs | 5/1/1971 | See Source »

...scene befitting a bad Khmer operetta. There in the dock were the children of the deposed god-king, on trial for their lives. The judge, a rotund man given to spasmodic eyeball rolling, was the same judge who a year earlier had condemned their father to death in absentia. At the end of each day's session, scores of the curious spectators who filled the drab, stifling courtroom would nervously make their way to the two defendants, many prayerfully clasping their hands before their faces in the traditional Cambodian gesture of respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: A God's Children in the Dock | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

Michael Brower, first vice chairman of the Massachusetts Americans for Democratic Action, spoke for those who wanted the nation's leaders put in the dock along with Calley. "The guilt of My Lai runs up the chain of command into the White House," he said. "The Army is trying to sacrifice one or two low-level officers as token scapegoats." The most extraordinary demonstration against the verdict from the antiwar side was staged in Manhattan's Wall Street by the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. Smack in front of the New York Stock Exchange, a dozen veterans in fatigue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Clamor Over Calley: Who Shares the Guilt? | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

...equally impractical?absurd, in fact?to envision some other kind of U.S. court staging a neo-Nuremberg war-crimes trial with Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk or Lyndon Johnson in the dock. It is one thing to say that such civilian leaders bear major responsibility for the war and the course it took, but quite another to expect legal judgment on such issues. Beyond that, clearly, none of those men are open to Nuremberg charges of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." All sought quite the opposite ends in Viet Nam, and intent is crucial in law. All believed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Clamor Over Calley: Who Shares the Guilt? | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

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