Word: pleasing
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...other beleaguered trial judges also had reason to be pleased with the decision. New York Supreme Court Justice John M. Murtagh in February had abruptly recessed a pretrial hearing for 13 boisterous Panthers accused of plotting to bomb public places in New York City. This week, armed with solid support for strict discipline plus notification from the defendants that they were ready to stand trial, Murtagh will resume their case. Just one day after the Supreme Court ruling, Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas Judge Leo Weinrott was confronted with Defendant George Kenney, who kept yelling at potential jurors...
Even that failed. In a display of impatience with both Congress and their own leadership, some 3,000 members of Chicago's N.A.L.C. Branch 11 shouted down pleas from union officers to remain on their jobs and voted overwhelmingly to strike. The resistance spread quickly. Postal units in Boston, Cleveland...
Federal court injunctions have been issued in most cities to stop the strike, but local unions have been ignoring both the injunctions and the pleas of the postal union's national leadership to return to work.
Although homebuilding has become a principal victim of the fight against inflation, the Nixon Administration has been resisting many of the industry's pleas for special help. Several Government agencies have poured a total of $13 billion into mortgages, loans and commitments, but even so, housing production has fallen...
In the Federal Building jury room and then in the Palmer House hotel, the jury of ten women and two men argued and horse-traded for four days before reaching a verdict on the charges against the Chicago Seven-which were that they had conspired to incite a riot during...