Word: earls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Horses and Dukes. Unseasonably balmy weather is predicted for Inauguration Day itself, in happy contrast to the eight inches of snow that buried Washington just before the Kennedy Inauguration eight years ago. After Nixon takes the oath from Chief Justice Earl Warren at noon on the Capitol steps and delivers his inaugural address, the two-hour parade-shortest in memory, timed to end while there is still enough light for color-television cameras-will get under way up Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House. Nixon, Vice President Agnew and their families will watch from a heated presidential box enclosed...
...Serpent, if one ignores the form in favor of the content (not an easy thing to do), inquires into the source, nature and existence of guilt, leaping back in time from James Earl Ray and Sirhan Sirhan to Cain. Ideas wander idly in and out of the action. At all point's the company stretches its physical resources to the limit, and proves itself an unusually well-coordinated lot. Although The Open Theatre doesn't go in for the acrobatics encouraged by Julian Beck and his crowd, these performers seem every bit as able as their Living Theatre counterparts...
Courtroom battles that stir nationwide curiosity and passion are few and far between. Two such cases are scheduled to begin early this year - the trial of Sirhan Sirhan, who is accused of assassinating Senator Robert Kennedy, and that of James Earl Ray, who is accused of murdering Martin Luther King Jr. Whether or not either defendant can get a fair trial will depend largely on the skill and fortitude of two men: Judge Herbert Walker of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, and Judge W. (for Walter) Preston Battle of the Shelby County Criminal Court in Memphis...
...dance hall. After earning undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Southern California, he worked first for the state, mainly investigating the licensing of stock brokers, and later for the Los Angeles County district attorney. He practiced law on his own for seven years. Then, in 1953, Governor Earl Warren appointed him to the bench...
President Nixon appoints Claire Booth Luce to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. A committee of Harvard dignitaries attends the dedication of Mather House which crumbles to the ground when Nathan Pusey strikes it squarely with a champagne bottle. The bottle remains intact...