Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farce of Justice? The two-month trial grew out of an earlier legal battle in Nashville. There, in 1962, Hoffa went to trial on conspiracy charges. The case ended in a mistrial when the jury failed to agree on a verdict. After that, Justice Department investigators found evidence that Hoffa and a few colleagues had tried corruptly to influence two members of the hung jury. In the case decided last week, Hoffa and a co-defendant were convicted of trying to win over a woman juror by promising to get a promotion for her husband, a member of the Tennessee...
...case goes to judgment." Women fare better in less strenuous appellate work, says Judge Harold R. Medina of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Despite male objections that an attractive woman has an "unfair" advantage in the courtroom, Medina recalls a case where the court was so absorbed in the legal aspects of a young woman attorney's case that the men accepted her simply as a lawyer. "When she was finished," says Medina, "she went right out and had a baby. We men hadn't even noticed she was pregnant...
Many police forces have elaborate electronic departments. Clandestine eavesdropping has featured increasingly in big-time legal battles, including the Bobby Baker hearings in Washington and Frank Sinatra Jr.'s kidnaping case. Not too unhappily, Andrew J. Palermo, chief investigator for Boston's Central Secret Service Bureau, allows: "Nobody is safe anywhere...
President Smith, who exhorts students to "value values," is sometimes forced to blow the whistle. He warns against "unexamined liberalism," worries that activists may forsake "scrupulously legal and nonviolent" tactics. His own record is memorable. Outspoken against McCarthyism at the height of it, he led other colleges in attacking the now repealed loyalty "disclaimer oath" in the National Defense Education Act. When his students invited Communist Gus Hall to speak on campus, Smith ignored public outcries. Hall spoke. As Smith tells old grads: "Your college has guts. There are a lot of colleges that don't. Be proud...
While battling each other, U.S. brokers also have to tangle with a few foreign legal problems. France and Italy have exchange controls that force buyers to place security orders through a bank instead of a brokerage house. Swiss investors are bound by similar customs. Result: the European customer often pays two commissions instead of one. In Germany, where banks handle securities by tradition rather than by law, Merrill Lynch is risking the banks' wrath by urging customers to deal directly with its offices. It may take a while, but U.S. companies are betting on a steady surge in European...