Word: motionful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Popkin was called before the grand jury after Boston's Federal District Court refused to hear a motion for a protective order on his behalf...
...additions to the annual January infestation of lists include the traditional couturier-cum-socialite choice of Best-Dressed Women (No. 1: the Begum Ago Khan, No. 2: Mrs. Ronald Reagan); Fashion Designer Mr. Blackwell's Worst-Dressed women (No. 1: Actress AM MacGraw, No. 2: Jacqueline Onassis); the Motion Picture Herald's poll for 1971 Box Office Star (No. 1: John Wayne, No. 2: Clint Eastwood); Dr. Joyce Brothers' radio poll for Most Sex-Appealing Men (No. 1: Vice President Spiro T. Agrtew, No. 2: Actor Paul Newman); and the Fashion Foundation of America's categorized...
...other innovation, it is the ability to take a second look at what has just happened that has kept the armchair fan riveted to his TV set.* Not only can he second-guess a referee's call, but he can count on savoring thrilling moments in slow motion and from different perspectives...
Luckily for Jones, as he now acknowledges, "I had good friends in Washington who are lawyers." The firm of Welch & Morgan began a systematic series of motions. Requests were made for a transcript of the grand jury testimony, for a quashing of the indictment, for the suppression of evidence obtained by electronic eavesdropping, and for a bill of particulars from the Justice Department. As each motion was denied, Jones' lawyers appealed to higher courts. The question of admitting the portable radio evidence took four years to reach the U.S. Supreme Court, which let stand a decision allowing...
...most frequent defense tactic has been a motion to move the hypothetical trial from Washington to Las Vegas. Seven such requests, each based on a different argument, have been considered and rejected by federal courts. Jones' chief attorney, Charles McNelis, filed an eighth request for change of venue June 28, but Federal Judge Joseph C. Waddy has not yet found time to rule on it. When Waddy decides, McNelis will be ready with more motions. Says he: "There are some other procedural matters that haven't been disposed...