Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking for a unanimous court, Chief Justice Warren utterly rejected Singer's "bald proposition." The Constitution, he said, provides for no more and no less than "impartial trial by jury." To its framers, in fact, jury trial was such a vital shield against oppression that some of them regarded it as the only permissible way of determining guilt. Not until 1930 did the Supreme Court rule that defendants can waive jury trial in federal criminal cases but then only with permission of both judge and prosecutor...
...Human Shield. Chicago police ringed Elijah Muhammad's 19-room, $50,000 red brick mansion on the South Side, reconnoitered nearby Muslim buildings. When a delivery truck pulled up to Elijah's house with what the driver said was a grandfather clock, the police bomb squad rushed to the scene. They found that it was indeed a grandfather clock, a gift from Muslim women in Philadelphia...
...midst of an eleven-car motorcade, was surrounded by a phalanx of Fruit of Islam members inside the hall. Newsmen were frisked head to toe before entering, even had their shoes checked for hollowed-out heels. Lining the fern-decorated stage and directly below it was a human shield of 55 Fruit of Islam guards, and scores more patrolled the aisles...
...CANTO (2 LPs; London). A festive addition to the current revival of "beautiful singing," these 23 arias, duets and trios are by familiar composers (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Handel) as well as unfamiliar ones (Piccinni, Lampugnani, Bononcini, Shield). Joan Sutherland is the heroine of the album, her brilliant voice describing perfect arabesques in the stratosphere. Richard Conrad's flowing tenor blends beautifully with hers, and there is also ample opportunity to judge the fast-rising Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Home, whose range, power and flexibility are formidable but who is not yet in the same galaxy as Sutherland...
...astronauts who will eventually ride in Gemini capsules were crew simulators: black boxes weighing 160 Ibs. each, stuffed with batteries, timing devices, tape recorders and electronic apparatus capable of keeping records, testing communications and giving orders. With imperturbable efficiency, they turned the capsule so that its blunt heat shield was forward. At the proper moment, they separated an adapter section and fired four retrorockets. As the capsule dived down through the atmosphere, the shield streamed fire at 2,000° F. At 10,600 ft., a small stabilizing parachute opened, then the 84-ft. main chute lowered the capsule into...