Word: martial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel Nickerson, and for weeks the U.S. Army's drumbeaters were out proclaiming the coming attractions. West Pointer John C. Nickerson Jr., 41, World War II combat soldier (Silver Star, Bronze Star) and postwar missile .specialist, was risking 46 years' imprisonment as he faced Army court-martial charges ranging in effect from laxity through perjury to espionage. The plot line was that Nickerson, field coordinator of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., had been caught sending secret documents on the missile program to unauthorized businessmen, newsmen and Congressmen. The motivation: Nickerson was making a hero...
...Partisan. Last week, before an Army court-martial at Redstone Arsenal, with the house packed with newsmen, the curtain went up on The Case of Colonel Nickerson. It was soon obvious from the first act, and to no one's surprise, that the great drama had turned into something akin to a forum for Colonel Nickerson. First off, Nickerson pleaded guilty in effect to charges of laxity, whereupon the Army dropped the tough specifications about espionage and perjury (and thus reduced the sentence). Then, Nickerson's civilian counsel Ray H. Jenkins (of Army-McCarthy fame) produced...
...court-martial board pondered just 40 minutes and handed down a wrist-tapping sentence of $100 a month less in pay for 15 months, suspension of rank for a year, i.e., no command job, but eligible for staff work, loss of privileges, and a reprimand. "The nation can relax and breathe easier now," said Counsel Jenkins. "We did all right," said Colonel Nickerson. "What have I got to appeal? I was guilty and was properly punished. If there had been no sentence at all, it would have undermined discipline in the Army...
Divorced. Barry Sullivan, 44, longtime actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Too Late the Phalarope), screen (The Bad and the Beautiful); by Marie Brown Sullivan, 45; after 20 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Girard was on duty when he fired the shot, the U.S. was in error when it waived its primary jurisdiction to the Japanese under the status-of-forces agreement. Turning Girard over to Japanese courts would be "in violation of the Constitution" (i.e., the right to a U.S. court-martial), and Judge McGarraghy ordered the Department of Defense not to surrender...