Word: hearing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done by Researcher Geraldine Kirshenbaum, who is often amused when sports people get nervous about having a feminine reporter around. Some hockey public relations men tried to keep her away from the players "because their language is so terrible and these men would be embarrassed to have a girl hear it." She heard enough to confirm the point: the players' language is terrible. Key man on our Sport team is Charles Parmiter, who has been writing the section since 1961 and whose application of talent to subject matches the intensity of Bobby Hull devoting himself to hockey...
...Negroes. After testing Operation Breadbasket's strength, A. & P. stores in Chicago found 970 jobs for Jackson, and Jewel Tea has hired 662 Negroes. Dozens of other white employers did not wait for a boycott. "You can't calculate the number of jobs made available because they hear those footsteps coming," says Jackson...
...Francis quickly gives himself away as a cranky, querulous old man. To hear him tell it, Gipsy Moth's designer and builders created a rolling, roundheeled bitch, and girdling the globe alone is as bum a trip as anything this side of LSD. Still, the curt, seamanlike account should be required study for any weekend sailor inclined to emulate Sir Francis' accomplishment. As Sir Francis notes at one point: "I had no feeling of romance about the voyage yet but, of course, seasickness is very anti-romantic." By the end of Chapter 10, most readers will be willing...
...hear about the sex strangler on the radio? Some guy breaks into a girl's apartment, strangles her with her own stocking, and then I guess he balls her after she's dead...
...study how jurors are influenced by publicity. But the ABA rightly decided that their committees three-year study justified immediate action. The committee injury documented a problem even media representatives acknowledge is critical: far too often, defendants, are convicted on the basis of what jurors read in newspapers or hear on T.V. instead of what happens in court. Some of this information is never intended for jurors-such as pre-trial hearings on the admissibly of evidence-and none of it is obtained under oath...