Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unsympathetic courtroom, Rene Floriot, one of the best and most expensive of Parisian criminal lawyers, delivered a marathon defense oration that ended with "Mais non, all I am trying to say is that you cannot find a man guilty on this kind of evidence." Swiss newspapers fumed at French journalists who suggested that Jaccoud was being railroaded because he had blemished the reputation of conservative, Calvinist Geneva. Students angrily burned copies of Paris-Match on a city square...
...jury was out for a total of three hours, found Pierre Jaccoud guilty of "simple homicide" and sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment, less the nearly two years he has already been under arrest. French lawyers sneered at the verdict as "a typical Swiss compromise." Lawyer Floriot, arriving in Paris, protested: "If my client was guilty, he should have received a much heavier sentence; if not, he should have been liberated...
...involves the gallows; his answer to man's love of money is to put a price on his head. This time his people play murder. A brash, coarse, well-heeled American salesman (Pat Hingle), whose car has broken down, asks a snowy night's lodging in a Swiss chalet. There he finds a retired judge (Ludwig Donath), a retired prosecutor (Max Adrian) and a retired defense lawyer (Claude Dauphin) who meet regularly to dine well and then stage trials-in a "Court of the Unconscious, where the law does not reach"-of various living or historical characters. Invited...
...WILL NOT SERVE, by Eveline Mahyére (164 pp.; Dufton; $3), is a first novel that ends when the 17-year-old heroine commits suicide. Not long before its European publication in 1958, Swiss Author Eveline Mahyére turned up the gas in her parents' Geneva apartment and committed suicide herself at the age of 28. In France, critics praised I Will Not Serve, even found a warning and a message: modern youth has too much freedom, which it is "incapable of enduring." Parents of free U.S. youngsters are more likely to decide that both author...
...week's end the newsmen and photographers from all over Europe who filled the court were uncertain what impression was being gained by the twelve apple-cheeked Swiss jurors who will decide whether lovelorn Pierre Jaccoud goes free or goes to jail for life for "murder with singular perversity." But already the testimony had been such that staid, strait-laced Geneva-the society that ignores tourists and scorns international conclaves -is not likely to be the same for a long time to come. Said a Swiss-German lawyer of the Swiss-French city: "This is the undoing...