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...lissome, lippy aunt, Candace Mossler, 46, in intimate detail. Most lawyers, though, are morally certain that they know exactly why a Miami jury so easily acquitted Candy and Mel of killing her millionaire husband, Jacques Mossler, 69: the defendants had in their corner hulking, booming Houston Lawyer Percy Foreman, whose never-failing tactic is to act as if the murder victim, not the suspect, were on trial. By "trying" everyone except his clients, Foreman has lost a defendant to the electric chair only once in more than 700 capital cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Mesmerism in Miami | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...Percy Foreman, 64, is probably the biggest, brashest, brightest criminal lawyer in the U.S. The 250-lb. son of a onetime Texas sheriff, Foreman chose brains over brawn as a teen-ager when he landed a contract to load cotton at 25? a bale, then hired laborers to do the job at 8? a bale. At 16, Foreman quit the hamlet of Bold Springs to seek his fortune in Houston; he shined shoes, delivered papers, and hustled through the University of Texas law school. Of his clients, he likes to say mysteriously: "They may not always be right, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Mesmerism in Miami | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...mountains of evidence amassed by the prosecution, the jury decided every last one of those issues in the defendants' favor and acquitted them on all counts. It was clearly the question of Krebiozen's medicinal value that had been on the jurymen's minds. Explained Foreman Adolph J. Beranek: "There had been no fair test of Krebiozen. We were convinced that it had some merit, and we were not in a position to kill it without a fair trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancer: The Krebiozen Verdict | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...work in West Germany's booming factories. He settled in Wuppertal, where his wife Eketerini and his elder daughter Helena joined him to work at a cable plant. Vlachos, 42, however, was a moody, tempestuous man, and he eventually lost his job through an argument with a foreman. So when his son Ioannis, 22, who worked near by, decided to send for his 18-year-old wife Niki, the family delegated the idle Vlachos to go home and bring her back from Valtero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Alien Horror | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

Another result of the electric loss, according to Floyd L. Kingsbury, foreman engineer at the campus' central power plant, was the total loss of heat at the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard To Make Electrical Change; Plans Call for System of Generators | 11/18/1965 | See Source »

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