Word: panels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Samuel Williston Professor of Law, will head the committee. Farnsworth, director of the University Health Services, is the only psychiatrist on the panel. They were chosen by the executive committee of Columbia's faculty...
...Camelots. The Kennedy camp has sought to exploit Humphrey's new ties with the South. Ted Sorensen, one of Kennedy's top speechwriters and strategists, charged on a television panel show last week that Humphrey had already offered the vice-presidential nomination on his ticket "to every Southern Governor." When pressed as to his source, Sorensen insisted: "I know he has." Which governors in particular? "Right across the board." The idea of Humphrey putting Lester Maddox or Lurleen Wallace as close to the presidency as the proverbial heartbeat is, of course, bafflegab, and Sorensen himself later backed away...
...sentence for the 1966 slaying of eight nurses in Chicago. Another is Daniel Hugon, awaiting trial in Paris on a charge of having murdered a prostitute. His lawyers contend that he is mentally unfit to stand trial because of his chromosomal abnormality, and the Paris court has appointed a panel of experts, including both a psychiatrist and one of the world's most brilliant geneticists, Dr. Jerome Lejeune, to advise...
...dominate those he meets on the road." And no where is the species more homicidal than in France, whose drivers are peculiarly susceptible to "vanity, excessive impetuosity and bad manners." A recent altercation in Paris eloquently illustrates the diagnosis: annoyed when he was delayed briefly by a slow-moving panel truck, the driver of a Citroën sedan sped around it, whipped in front of it in an insulting maneuver known locally as a queue de poisson (fishtail swerve), then forced the truck to stop and shot its driver...
...first of a series of speeches on national problems, addressed himself to the urban crisis in a half-hour weighty but well reasoned address that left the editors slightly comatose. Richard Nixon, by contrast, sparkled in a relaxed format that mixed stand-up wit with graceful repartee before a panel of four editors. The same editorial audience that clapped for Rockefeller only twice-and then none too loudly-interrupted Nixon's speech with applause 15 times...