Word: raye
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Courtroom battles that stir nationwide curiosity and passion are few and far between. Two such cases are scheduled to begin early this year - the trial of Sirhan Sirhan, who is accused of assassinating Senator Robert Kennedy, and that of James Earl Ray, who is accused of murdering Martin Luther King Jr. Whether or not either defendant can get a fair trial will depend largely on the skill and fortitude of two men: Judge Herbert Walker of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, and Judge W. (for Walter) Preston Battle of the Shelby County Criminal Court in Memphis...
...Modest Man. Judge Battle, 60, who will preside at the Ray trial, has already learned that the press does not always obey. Long before the trial, which has been continued to March 3, Battle issued an order against any prejudicial statements to the news media by lawyers, witnesses and others involved in the case. Still, Look published two articles by William Bradford Huie, a journalist who has bought exclusive rights to Ray's story and has also interviewed several potential witnesses. Reporting that Ray was hired in Canada to do some smuggling for a man named Raoul, Huie suggests...
...last autumn cited four other men for contempt because of articles about the trial published in Memphis newspapers. Though he is modest and taciturn, Battle does not intend to be pushed around by the participants in the case-not even by the suave and explosive Percy Foreman of Houston, Ray's lawyer. According to one Memphis attorney, who knows Battle's style: "He can eat you out all of a sudden without your ever knowing it's coming and without changing his expression...
SELECT was developed by two undergraduates at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bernard Klein and Ray Kurzweil. Klein had gained business experience in summer jobs at Sonar Radio Corp. Kurzweil had been working with computers since his junior high school days (at 14, he built and programmed a computer that wrote music). Both men agreed fervently that the process of college selection is a harsh trial of patience and endurance for most students. Together they raised $1,300 to lease computer time and to pay 20 Harvard students for assembling and collating information on the nation's 3,000 institutions...
Harvard competed in two tournaments over the Christmas vacation. In a Waterville Valley Tournament Jim Platz took a first in the class A-B jump while in the class C jump Ray Ingersoll placed second and Jim Wolf placed fifth. The Waterville Valley Tournament came at the end of a one week Harvard training camp...