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...physical level, the trial is concerned with who ate whom when. Even in cannibalism a pecking order is revealed. No particular stigma seems to be attached to having eaten two loyal Indian guides. Keseberg, being a German, is supposed to have acted out of depravity, while the native Americans plead pure necessity. When Keseberg reveals that he ate his own dead daughter, the horror of the primal taboo seems to invade the playhouse. It is as if one were present at the banquet at which Atreus served up to his brother Thyestes the three sons of Thyestes, and the father...
When Bianchi stands trial in Los Angeles and Washington he is expected to plead not guilty by reason of insanity because of a dual personality. At first even Bianchi's defense attorney, Dean Brett, rejected the plea. "That's the stuff of novels," he told an associate. But when Brett had trouble communicating with Bianchi, tie called in a team of psychologists and psychiatrists. One of them, Watkins, hypnotized Bianchi and discovered the second personality. Watkins told TIME Correspondent Edward J. Boyer that while hypnotized, Bianchi identified ten of the 13 Hillside victims and admitted killing them...
...mere mention of the words "Harvard Strike," or even the year 1969. Most refuse to talk about the subject. George B. Kistiakowsky, professor of Chemistry Emeritus and a former caucus leader, went so far as to say he does not remember anything that went on ten years ago: "I plead the Fifth Amendment," he added. John T. Dunlop, Lamont Professor of Economics, who was dean of the Faculty during the early '70s, refused even to listen to questions about the strike...
...testimony provided example after example of "horrendous communication." "What we learned in testimony was that Franklin Ford as dean of the faculty had no access to the Corporation and had to put any action of the Faculty in writing to Pusey. Pusey alone appeared before the Corporation to plead the case and no one knew what Pusey said to them, and that made the dean a pretty frustrated guy," he adds...
...Estaing, who is allowed only to be crotchety. Networks and newspaper chains are far larger than what William Randolph Hearst ruled, but Hearst was a real press lord and his successors are not. Without radio, television or national newsmagazines to contradict him, Hearst's papers could plead causes or distort events on whim...