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...small scuffle broke out in the courtroom during pretrial hearings. (The judge later accepted the Panthers' apology and reduced the sentence to one week.) Some 400 Yale students met in Harkness Hall, discussed the trial and linked it to what they considered similar prejudiced action by Judge Julius Hoffman in the Chicago conspiracy trial. They voted to seek an immediate, open-ended "moratorium" of classes to permit the entire university to study the issues raised by the trial in their midst-mainly the treatment of political dissidents by police and the courts. They vaguely hoped that the university could...
...fittingly enough in the narrow, 110-yd. corridor of no man's land between East and West Berlin. Countless Adolf Hitler squares or streets in German cities and towns have been renamed, often in honor of such heroes of the plots to overthrow him as Klaus von Stauffenberg, Julius Leber and Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Adolf, once a popular name, is seldom bestowed on German children today. About the only lasting memento is the 1,800 miles of modern autobahnen Hitler built, but even these highways have been broadened, resurfaced and extended beyond recognition...
...contrast, full-time court stenographers often have both their salaries and out-of-court fees regulated by statute. Even so, Mrs. Dorothy Brackenbury, the chief reporter in Judge Julius Hoffman's court during the Chicago Seven conspiracy trial, stands to make a modest fortune selling the 22,500-page transcript at the federally regulated price of 40? per page. At this rate, she can gross $9,000 per copy, and she already has several buyers...
...What happened to all those liberal senators when that racist anal judge Julius Geritol Hoffman spit in the face of the Constitution at our trial?" Abbie Hoffman shouted. "Clean for Gene, George McGovernment, Teddy-with...
Pornography and Prayer. Douglas provoked earlier impeachment attempts in 1953, when he briefly stayed the execution of convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg because their second request for habeas corpus raised a substantial question that the court had not previously considered. The attempted impeachment died in the House Judiciary Committee, and Douglas continued to join Justice Hugo Black in vigorous dissents urging the protection of the rights of the unpopular. In cases involving free speech and assembly, Douglas has argued that the First Amendment is intended to protect everyone, including "miserable merchants of unwanted ideas." Direct action, he conceded...