Word: juror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jumping Juror. The laughter, since it comes mainly out of the can, may be irritating, but the characters are not-and therein hides the secret of a successful TV series. The regulars tune in not for the latest witticisms of Gag Writer Rob Petrie, but to watch Dick Van Dyke, a clean-cut fellow with a frog in his throat. He looks believable. He isn't aggressively glamorous or excessively cute. He is a pretty bright guy whose brain is sometimes a ball of thumbs, and he is married to an American icon: the steady, dependable, reliable, beautiful, clean...
...illegal payments from a trucking company, through a truck-leasing firm nominally owned by their wives. Judge William E. Miller declared a mistrial when the jury failed to reach a verdict (TIME, Jan. 4). Afterward, Miller said there had been evidence of "illegal and improper attempts" to influence jurors, and he ordered a special grand jury investigation. In its indictment, the grand jury charged that Hoffa, through one co-conspirator or another, made these offers: - > To the son of a juror named Gratin Fields, $5,000 for himself and $5,000 for his father if the son would influence...
...Soldier's Duty. During the entire trial, just two court days were lost-to allow Juror Elsie Klamroth, a part-time market investigator, to recover from a bad cold. Three of the original 16 jurors and alternates were excused for one reason or another; the rest stuck it out despite occasional aches and sniffles. "I hopped into the courtroom on my sprained ankle once." Saleslady Ruth Harris says proudly. "I felt like a soldier doing my duty...
...jury's two salesladies continued working at night, and most of the others were kept on regular salaries by their employers (in addition to juror's pay of $7 a day for the first 30 days and $10 a day thereafter). Despite the strain of keeping up with the complicated evidence, the hours were not bad-usually 10 to 4, five days a week. Says James Villafana, a night-shift postal clerk: "It was just like a real vacation, and I was able to get reacquainted with the wife and kids...
...said, evidence "indicating that illegal and improper attempts were being made by close labor union associates of the defendant to contact and influence certain members of the jury." Records of two special court sessions, kept secret until the trial's end to avoid prejudice, showed that one prospective juror had reported to Miller a $10,000 bribe offer. Two regular jurors had been disqualified after attempts to influence them-one of them a housewife whose highway-patrolman husband testified he had been offered help in getting a promotion by Ewing King, president of Nashville Teamster Local 327. Miller said...