Word: marathoning
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...unsympathetic courtroom, Rene Floriot, one of the best and most expensive of Parisian criminal lawyers, delivered a marathon defense oration that ended with "Mais non, all I am trying to say is that you cannot find a man guilty on this kind of evidence." Swiss newspapers fumed at French journalists who suggested that Jaccoud was being railroaded because he had blemished the reputation of conservative, Calvinist Geneva. Students angrily burned copies of Paris-Match on a city square...
Favorite Target. The anger thus generated turned naturally on Castro's favorite target, the U.S. On his TV marathon, Castro had charged that U.S. business was responsible for Cuba's history of "stealing, killing, granting concession, subjugating national interests." He accused the U.S. of sending light planes to make incendiary raids on Cuban sugar fields, and charged that "a certain chancellery" was plotting his assassination. "That is the Alpha Plan of the counterrevolutionaries" he said sneeringly...
...month. Beyond that lie his budget message and his promised fight to preserve the budget balance. He must soon decide whether to extend the U.S. ban on nuclear testing, which expires at year's end. And Jan. 26 is the day the Taft-Hartley injunction expires in the marathon steel strike (see The Economy), with both sides still at a stubborn standoff...
Karam Singh's marathon interrogation began at 4 in the morning. He was asked to narrate the entire incident, but when he came to the point where the Chinese ambushers opened fire, the senior officer present "became wild and shouted back that it was incorrect, and that I must confess the Indians fired first." Singh at first refused. The Chinese threatened to shoot him, and "ultimately, they made me say that I could not judge at that time as to who fired first." After twelve hours of nearly continuous questioning, Karam Singh "was almost frozen and mentally and physically...
...annual deficit; rental for the committee's commodious offices amounts to $2,820 per month, and the 80-man staff draws down some $440,000 in annual salaries. Butler maintains a $350-a-month Washington apartment on the expense account, and his marathon travels (averaging 1,000 miles per week) add to the burden (although Butler travels economically, rarely hosts dinners or parties...