Word: gibson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California is trying a widely admired device that may solve the problem. The idea began taking shape in the early 1950s when a murder trial was interrupted for four days because the judge vanished on an alcoholic binge. Indignantly, California's now retired Chief Justice Phil S. Gibson spurred a bar-bench study that turned up a surprising number of shocking statistics. Of five judges in one county, four had been absent for as long as a year because of ill health. Despite mounting case loads, other judges thought nothing of taking three-month vacations and playing golf during...
Chief Justice Gibson pressed for a state constitutional amendment that would give the California Supreme Court full power to remove unfit judges at every level, including its own. The state legislature and California voters overwhelmingly approved such an amendment in 1960. The bench-dominated body that has been set up to do the high court's investigating work is a nine-member Commission on Judicial Qualifications-five judges, two lawyers and two laymen. The commission operates out of San Francisco under Executive Secretary Jack E. Frankel, an able, tactful lawyer...
...when they have eben held out West. Alumni funds suffice to buy equipment for the Nordic events, but individual members are still foting the bill for boots, and Alpine skis. Team members and coaches supply the transportation on the long four-day weekends north to the carnivals. Coach Charles Gibson has his expenses paid by the University, but receives no salary...
Robert Lee Gibson Jr., president, Libby, McNeill & Libby...
...that prospective guests at the Rockefeller-owned Dorado Beach Hotel, where rates run to $75 per couple per day, were putting up a $300 deposit just for a reservation. The 160-room Flamboyan Hotel, which opened last week, is already booked through the season. And later this year, Philco, Gibson Refrigerator and the Disciples of Christ have scheduled conventions that will bring 18,000 visitors to Puerto Rico...