Word: law
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harsh. Having reached the first-degree murder verdict the previous week, the panel, under California law, had to decide on Sirhan's punishment. The defense and prosecution made brief pleas, after which the jury spent eleven hours and 45 minutes deciding Sirhan's fate. "I know he premeditated the murder with malice," said Broomis, "but I still thought the death penalty was too harsh." Four formal ballots were taken, but life imprisonment never received more than three votes. Finally, unanimity was achieved. George A. Stitzel, a pressroom foreman for the Los Angeles Times, reported later: "One item that...
...fabulous young man, a very fine young man." Thus did Mrs. John Slocum, a Newport and Washington, D.C., socialite and a direct descendant of Rhode Island Founder Roger Williams, describe her future son-in-law, Adam Clayton Powell III, a direct descendant of the high-rolling Harlem Congressman. The bride-to-be is Daughter Beryl, 26, a Radcliffe grad and freelance writer whose paternal family tree is rooted in Mayflower timber (her career-diplomat father is descended from Miles Sta-dish). Beryl said that she and Adam, 22, a producer in WCBS-TV's news department in Manhattan, will...
...faculty disciplinary committee. But they refused to appear on the ground that Cornell could hardly act as an impartial judge of "political action" against the university itself. When the committee threatened to suspend the six unless they showed up, the blacks turned the tables-they cited an obscure by-law empowering the committee to try errants in absentia. In sum, they claimed, the threat of suspension without a trial was in itself illegal as well as racist...
...moral and legal subversion of our society is a lifelong and lucrative profession." The Government's traditionally oblique line of attack used to be income tax violations, but big-time hoodlums have learned to keep their books in order. In the last few years, therefore, law-enforcement officials have been trying a variety of different approaches. Three-all endorsed by Nixon-seem particularly inventive and promising...
...STRIKE FORCE: In the past, while a single Mafia family or group of families coordinated most of the major crime in an area, law officers would be working, often at cross-purposes, on different parts of the empire. Now the cops are learning to organize as effectively as the robbers. Three years ago, Henry Petersen, the Justice Department's chief racket buster, created "Strike Force," a team of lawyers and investigators from different Government law-enforcement branches. The first group of twelve men was sent early in 1967 into Buffalo, N.Y. to blitz the firmly entrenched Mafia operation...