Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blown up if they don't get the maximum penalty." Though Switzerland has no death penalty, one letter writer offered his services as a hangman "without pay." At week's end the six were found guilty; they will be sentenced this week. The worst they can expect is 20 years, for "inflicting injuries that could be reasonably expected to cause death...
...some respects, the twelve men confined to a New Orleans hotel last week can expect no better treatment than Army recruits. For weeks they will live barrack-style, four to a room, at the Rountowner Motor Inn. A deputy sheriff will guard them even when they sleep. Only in emergencies will they be allowed to talk by phone with their wives-and then only after a sheriff contacts Judge Edward Haggerty for his permission. For their trouble, the jurors, who will eventually decide whether Businessman Clay Shaw conspired to kill President John F. Kennedy, will not be paid a cent...
Pleading Hardship. For most of those who serve, jury duty is a financial hardship. Even though the tightfisted parish of New Orleans, which does not pay jurors anything, is not typical, the juror in federal courts gets only $20 a day. In most state courts he may expect to earn less. Some companies continue to pay all or part of a man's salary while he serves, but they tend to get balky when the trial is protracted. In Millbury, Mass., the John Bath toolmaking company once insisted that an employee on jury duty report to work...
...expect all the flimflam to be swept away is, of course, absurd. Pressagents and windup plastic starlets are as much a part of movies as acetate; in one way or another, they always will be. And no matter how actors and actresses play themselves down, their films play them up. Movies are wide-screened, stereophonic and 30 times larger than life?so are actors. What is important is that many of the young actors can separate the reflected face on the screen from the original in the mirror...
...study, for example, points out that despite statistics showing dramatic progress in medical care over the past decade, the amount of time the average American can expect, to spend in a sickbed or an institution has remained static. Illnesses stemming mainly from cigarettes, alcohol and a rich diet have undercut the advance...