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Even while he was still Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, John W. Gardner was forever receiving feelers from universities casting about for new presidents. Since he announced his resignation from the Cabinet last January, the rush to his door has become a traffic jam. Besides being beseeched by publishers for book manuscripts and magazine articles, Gardner has received firm offers of four university presidencies, not to mention at least two dozen directorships of schools, foundations and corporations...
Judge Robert Gardner of Santa Ana, Calif., has the reputation of being an innovator. But even to Gardner, the request by the defense attorney was an extraordinary one. On trial was a young Filipino mother, Antonia Thomas, accused of murdering her six-day-old infant by feeding it some caustic substance from a baby bottle. She had already been found guilty in the killing once, but a mistrial had been declared. Between the trials, Defense Lawyer Dudley Gray had read in TIME (Dec. 29) about Thomas Kidwell, an accused wife killer who was shown to a jury on video tape...
...video tape of Kidwell had not been formally introduced as evidence, instead was shown to the jury to back up the district attorney's decision to reduce the charge. Moreover, Judge Gardner was well aware that higher courts have rarely allowed any testimony related to statements made by a person undergoing a lie-detector test or under truth drugs or hypnosis. Still, Gardner was interested...
...carefully instructed not to consider it as direct testimony. Though they could hardly ignore it, they had also to remember that hypnosis is not an infallible prod to the truth. Mulling all of this over, the jury deliberated for two days. "It's a rare case," said Judge Gardner.*Finally, late last week, the jury unanimously returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Said Judge Gardner afterward: "My gamble paid off. The verdict has confirmed my faith in the jury system. They viewed that film, then took into account all the other evidence, and considered...
Cohen was John Gardner's choice to replace him as Secretary; but while they would probably agree on goals, the two men have markedly different ideas on how to achieve them. Gardner was convinced that the nation could not wait for the next upward cycle and resigned in disenchantment when he felt the President did not share his sense of urgency about the plight of the cities. Cohen is no less unhappy with the current negative mood in Congress and the nation, but he is willing to wait, moving ahead meanwhile in small steps and shuffles...