Word: gavelling
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...bench that stands before a blue wall studded with gold stars. Through a door in the starry wall strides the judge, lean and tanned in his unvarying crisp black suit, white shirt and black tie. He usually shuns robes: "If a judge needs a robe and a gavel, he hasn't established control...
...make so much money doing its worst that it cannot afford to do its best." Inevitably, the headstrong "Big Moose," as Friendly was known around CBS, locked horns with the network's money managers. The result was his resignation 13 months ago because the company refused to carry gavel-to-gavel sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Viet Nam. Since then, he has become a professor of broadcast journalism at Columbia University and TV consultant to the Ford Foundation...
...public-school teaching has risen from one-fourth to one-third. Today, says Ralph Paul Joy, an assistant director of the National Education Association, teachers are too aroused merely to present a "timid, trembling salary request on ditto paper" and hold meetings merely for "the passing of the gavel and the pinning of the orchids...
Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger one morning last week tapped a brass bell with a wooden gavel, thus convened the first Cabinet meeting of West Germany's new black-and-red coalition government. For the next six hours, the ten Ministers from Kiesinger's Christian Democratic Union and the nine from the Social Democratic Party got their initial taste of working with longtime political foes. The main task: formulating a policy statement of government objectives, which Kiesinger will present this week to the Bundestag. Some of the points: warmer relations with Paris, fiscal reform, budget cuts...
...Gavel Awards are given for "distinguished service" in communicating to the public "the basic values of our legal and judicial systems." TIME was cited for its regular coverage of these systems in the Law section - which is written by Robert Shnayerson and edited by Richard Seamon - plus a specific citation for the July 16, 1965 Essay, "The Revolution in Criminal Justice...