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When litigation seems unavoidable, the commission turns to the Council of Europe's 18-member Committee of Ministers, who try their own higher-level political persuasion and generally find some solution-often by voting to quash the case. But if all else fails, the ministers reluctantly approve litigation in the Court of Human Rights...
...meaning mainly Old Enemy Bobby Kennedy) were "out to get him." They didn't. Last week Senator Joe McCarthy's former committee counsel was acquitted on all counts in Federal District Court in Manhattan. The jury did not buy the Government claim that Cohn had tried to quash an indictment against some stock swindlers and later lied about his activities to a grand jury...
...onetime Wunderkind of McCarthy-committee fame was accused on seven counts of tampering with grand jury witnesses in order to quash a 1959 indictment against four swindlers in the $5,000,000 stock defrauding of United Dye & Chemical Corp. Cohn faced up to 35 years in prison and $26,000 in fines. During 17 days of testimony by 67 witnesses, two of the swindlers swore that they paid $50,000 to duck indictment, and they said that one-third of the money went to Cohn. Nearing the end of its deliberation, the jury reportedly stood eleven to one for convicting...
...charge on Monday was for drunkenness on the public highway. The attorneys for the defendant, Donald L. Hollowell of Atlanta, and C.B. King of Albany, Georgia, both Negroes, moved immediately to quash the indictment on grounds that the grand jury was and had always been, completely white. They charged that in the selection of the grand jury a policy of systematic exclusion of Negroes had been pursued. The attornies examined the tax collector, a Mr. Hudson, with withered hands and bird-like expression, who co-operatively gave them the information about the tax rolls. He testified that jurors are selected...
While Detroit's Big Three hymned the bumper-to-bumper newness of their 1963 cars, AMC went out of its way to quash rumors that its line had been drastically restyled. In fact, AMC's new models had been-for AMC-extensively changed. The company's American has new, flowing lines that make it look longer and lower than its boxy predecessor (though it is an unchanged 173 in. long). AMC's Ambassador and Classic models have also been given modern lines that retain only vestigial traces of their traditional, safe-for-auntie appearance. The company...