Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nine are already appealing six-year federal-prison terms for pouring duck blood on Baltimore draft files. Appeals are also planned against last week's verdict. "It was a defeat from the legal point of view," said Kunstler. "But it was a triumph from the emotional, moral and ethical point of view. I have nothing to regret...
...milder punishment. They could, for example, be barred from operating as broker-dealers, or lose their registration as investment advisers. But, except for Dreyfus Corp., which operates the well-known Dreyfus & Co. brokerage firm, almost none of them engage in such activities. In any case, the SEC's verdict can be appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Considering the magnitude of the issues at stake, such an outcome seems likely...
...Committee on Published Polls to publicize standards for their opinion surveys. Last week, when their contradictory reports appeared, Harris called George Gallup Jr., whose famous father was traveling in Europe, and persuaded him to join in an unprecedented joint public statement. After consulting Crossley, they issued a complicated collective verdict. If their three polls were "plotted out sequentially, as though they were conducted by a single organization, using the same sampling techniques and the same question-asking techniques," they concluded, then 1) a Nixon-Humphrey race would be extremely close, "with Wallace perhaps holding the balance"; 2) "Rockefeller...
...himself with a thinly veiled rebuke to his rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Eugene McCarthy. "Peace talkers are 10?a dozen today," Humphrey said at a dinner-dance at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. "Peaceworkers, peacemakers are priceless." Judging from the still-remote prospects for peace, that verdict seems unimpeachable...
Seldom has a theological pronouncement been so anxiously awaited as Pope Paul's long-promised verdict on birth control. A special pontifical commission agonized over the subject for five years...