Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what the American people say about him. He has a laudable desire to be President of all the people. Yet for a practiced and consummate politician, at times he has a curious compulsion to appear nonpolitical. No matter what the rest of his tenure brings, no matter the final verdict of history, he has so far achieved part of his ambition: the people consider him to be a remarkably effective President...
...wall, apparently because the steering wheel was defective. Even though the trial judge was unable to find evidence of negligence by either manufacturer or driver, he held the manufacturer liable for breach of an "implied warranty" that the steering wheel was safe. The New Jersey Supreme Court upheld the verdict: "We see no rational doctrinal basis for differentiating between a fly in a bottle of beverage and a defective automobile...
...Again, he denied even being in Tennessee on the night Lee's father was killed. This time prosecution witnesses placed Jones less than a quarter-mile away from the death scene only minutes before the accident. The shirtsleeved jurors needed less than two hours to bring in a verdict of involuntary manslaughter, fixed his sentence at a year and a day. "I'm very disappointed," protested Jones. Said Welby Lee: "Justice was done...
...C.D.U. picked up just enough new strength to remain on top with 43% of the votes cast. And though the Free Democrats won only 8.3%, losing nearly half their 1960 strength, their margin was sufficient to preserve the ruling coalition. Both major parties last week issued the same verdict: "An excellent starting basis for the federal elections." In fact, as Erhard and Brandt are aware, their parties are still neck and neck as they turn into the stretch -with an estimated 23% of the nation's voters as yet undecided...
...laying on of the words, the critics took care of that next day. Only they weren't good. The unanimous verdict: Sarge baby, and CBS, which picked up the tab for the time and the $250,000 production cost, had been taken in by self-promoting Murray the K. "Uncle Sam done flipped his wig," said the New York Herald Tribune. Republican Congressmen were indignant -in fact, "almost incandescent in their fulminations," reported Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen following a G.O.P. policy-committee luncheon. Colorado's Republican U.S. Senator Gordon Allott phoned CBS President Frank Stanton and announced...