Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jury was indeed persuaded, and ultimately convicted the Collinses (TIME, Jan. 8, 1965). Small wonder. With the help of an expert witness from the mathematics department of a nearby college, the prosecutor explained that the probability of a set of events actually occurring is determined by multiplying together the probabilities of each of the events. Using what he considered "conservative" estimates (for example, that the chances of a car's being yellow were 1 in 10, the chances of a couple in a car being interracial 1 in 1,000), the prosecutor multiplied all the factors together and concluded...
...Martin Luther King's funeral and Good Friday, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 39.88 points to make a two-week gain of 65.02. It was the sharpest rally of the decade, and it hoisted the index of 30 blue-chip industrial shares to 905.69, highest since Jan. 9, wiping out nearly all the losses that followed the Viet Cong Tet offensive and the great gold rush...
Then, with the defendants and their battery of lawyers, relatives, and associates arrayed in a double semicircle around the courtroom, Ford listened to three hours of argument that the Jan. 5 indictment should be thrown...
Although 1,000 demonstrators accompanied the five men to Post Office building on Jan. 29 for their arraignment, only a few television cameramen greeted them yesterday. The only remarkable event outside the courtroom resulted when a giant crane overturned on Congress St. during the hearing. Spock strolled over during the lunch recess to inspect the wreckage...
...hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 31 years. So far, France has blocked agreement inside the EEC, but Common Market ministers will tackle the question again this week in Brussels. Hard-pressed Britain has announced that it is willing to grant full Kennedy Round cuts by next Jan. 1 instead of holding to the original five-year timetable. Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland have notified Washington that they are amenable to similar steps. All these concessions, however, hinge on the Administration's ability to thwart new protectionist moves by Congress...