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Broken down into categories, the results fill 1,000 pages of computer printouts which are designed to help predict how types of people from the particular community might be expected to react as jurors. There are, says Schulman, significant regional differences. In Harrisburg, polling indicated that women would be more friendly to the defense than men. They promised to be harsher in Gainesville, and the same as men in St. Paul. Following their predictive profiles, the defense looked in Harrisburg for working-class Lutherans, Roman Catholics and Brethren, a pacifist sect in the area. In Gainesville, defense lawyers tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Judging Jurors | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...hope students will not react to Watergate by withdrawing, but rather by plunging vigorously into the fray," he said. "After all, politicians are not all crooks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of '49 Elects Brademas As Chief Graduation Marshal | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...make it more difficult for Premier Golda Meir, in the wake of a national election that returned her to power with a reduced plurality, to form a new government committed to continuing negotiations. The Tel Aviv newspaper Yediot Aharonot, echoing a widespread feeling, demanded: "Why can't we react immediately to the provocation? Do we have to obtain approval from Washington to protect ourselves against murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Kissinger to the Rescue, Again | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...have a lot of nerve," he says. "Sometimes I don't really know why I picked a certain team until the next morning." Before the line is posted during the regular season, Martin runs it by some experienced Las Vegas bettors to see how they react. At this stage it is known as the outlaw line-one that will not necessarily be available to ordinary bettors. If the "wise guys" bet as Martin expects, the line goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Betting Bowl | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

...brain. If rats are given an electric shock immediately after learning a new skill, memory of the skill is lost. If the shock is delayed for half an hour, the memory is impaired. But if 24 hours elapse between learning and shock, most of the memory remains. Human beings react in the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploring the Frontiers of the Mind | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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