Word: gathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most buffs arrive at the courthouse at 10:30 a.m.-the subway charges half fare for the elderly after 10. Before the cases get going, 30 or 40 of them-all retired men-gather in the hallways pondering the day's entertainment schedule with a precision achieved through years of experience. They study the court calendar. They bring in clippings of trials from the Daily News. "Well, there's a good murder on the ninth floor," announces one. "Student killed his mother-in-law." "There's a good hijacking," says another. "The lawyer's good. Handles...
From there, they plan to gather at the Playboy Club, where a speech will be given on the sexual oppression of women-"a rather appropriate topic for the Playboy Club," said Amy Brodkey '71, an organizer of the march...
...Sutherland interrupts. Somewhat angrily, too. "I mean I hope it's going to get better before then. That's the point of the Peace Treaty. It's a positive platform that can get us together. It's an opportunity to gather a lot of fresh opposition to the war. It could be dynamite...
...School Governance Committee's campaign to gather student opinion about the selection of a new Law dean is finally underway...
...party machines to vote en bloc. Delegates must be selected in the year of the convention, which will help to eliminate the unresponsiveness of delegates chosen sometimes four years in advance. By amending requirements that tend to exclude less professional participants and ordering antidiscrimination standards, the committee hopes to gather more blacks, women and the young into the party process. The filing fee for delegates cannot exceed $10, for example, and a petition to run needs the names of no more than 1% of the body selecting the delegates. In order to reduce the power of party bosses, the committee...