Word: selections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Start. Voir dire is an art practiced largely in U.S. state courts. British judges simply call twelve veniremen at random without even asking their occupations. American federal judges usually do the questioning themselves. But in most state courts, lawyers are freely permitted to use voir dire not only to select jurors but to "condition" them. "Voir dire is really the start of a criminal trial," says F. Lee Bailey. "If you do it carelessly, you can lose a case by the time you get a jury together...
WASHINGTON, March 30--Rebecca S. Vreeland, lecturer on Sociology, told an audience of mental health experts today that Harvard men date to further personal goals in the early college years but date for companionship and to select a mate by their senior year...
Gaunt and visibly fatigued, Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd rose to defend himself last week before the Senate's Select Committee on Stand ards and Conduct. It was more than a year since Washington Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson had first accused Dodd, 59, of financial irregularities, and he seemed several years older in appearance. "I have read and heard that I betrayed my trust, that I betrayed my oath, and I tell you it has been a hard thing," said the Senator, his voice cracking occasionally. "The best thing for me has been my conscience. My conscience...
Another area of friction has been the "family lawyer" plan proposed by the CLAO last fall. They hoped that clergymen and social workers would help them select families whose credit, housing, or social status indicated a possible legal crisis in the near future. A CLAO staff assistant would then be assigned to the family to help it avoid the potential crisis...
...have never known a public servant that 1 worked better with, or for whom I had more admiration, or who I thought was more entitled to the public trust than the Vice President," said Johnson. "I felt that way when 1 asked the convention in Atlantic City to select him, and I feel even stronger about it today...