Word: ot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same steel and glass skyscraper where he has worked for the past five years, Federal Judge Otto Kerner sat rigidly before a packed, expectant courtroom, waiting to hear the verdict on himself. As befits a successful and distinguished man, a major general in the National Guard, twice Governor ot Illinois he looked calm and controlled. He searched the faces of the jury-seven men and five women, including housewives and hand laborers-who all avoided his gaze. The foreman said that the jury had reached a verdict, after 16 hours of deliberation, and he handed a sealed envelope...
Otto Kerner, 64, was convicted ot bribery conspiracy, income tax evasion, mail fraud and perjury. He could receive a maximum sentence of 83 years in prison and a fine of $93,000. The verdict stemmed from a dubious race-track stock deal in which Kerner, while Governor, netted $140,000 in profits in exchange for helping a track owner obtain a longer season and permission to expand into harness racing. It represented the conviction not just of a politician...
...President has not yet announced any details ot his plan-last year he talked of a $7.5 billion program for all of Indochina over a five-year period, but the Administration is now deliberately vague about who would get what, whether it would be direct bilateral aid or part of a multinational reconstruction effort. Much is still up in the air: Indochina remains unsettled, fighting continues, and the rest of the American P.O.W.s must be returned...
...Houston, John Matuszak, DT, Tampa. 2, Baltimore, from New Orieans, Bert Jones, QB, Louisiana State. 3, Philadelphia Serry Sisemore, OT, Texas. 4, New England, John Hannah...
...private papers. He sees the former Secretary-General as a man supremely equipped with the inner resources, courage, stamina and imperturbable tact to make the U.N. work. The book uses considerable inside knowledge as it follows Hammarskjöld through every major crisis of his day: McCarthyism, the aftermath ot Korea, Suez, Hungary, Lebanon, Algeria, the Congo...