Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convinced him of his founder's role or the promise of stock, turned down his bid for the stock itself, now worth $24.5 million after splits and stock dividends. Mahl's ruling raises the possibility that he may yet throw out the jury's verdict. Steele, the man who had been derisively described in court as the gladhander, door-opener, court jester and party giver at Litton, seemed unconcerned. Sitting in his lawyer's office, he made known his immediate plans: a champagne party for the jurors...
...Florida last week, Koufax got up one morning to find that his left arm was stiff and swollen. General Manager Buzzie Bavasi packed him off to Los Angeles for X rays. The verdict: at 29 he has a "traumatic arthritic condition" in his pitching elbow that flares up under "repeated stress"-throwing a baseball, for instance. Koufax cannot pitch the Dodgers' season opener, and there is no telling when he will be back in action-if at all. There is, of course, no cure for arthritis. Said Bavasi: "I am resetting the club right now, with the idea that...
Judge Albert Thomas accepted their defense. "This verdict will satisfy no one," he said, acquitting them all, but "it is not possible to prove that the accused identified themselves with the Nazi ideas of the main perpetrators. They were automatic robots, simple-minded persons who lacked the ability to realize the illegality of their doings...
...accompaniment of John Philip Sousa marches, came to a jarring finale last week. In the chill of dawn, naturalized U.S. Citizen Farhan Attassi, 37, was hanged in Damascus' Al Marjah Square. Attached to the white robe customary for a condemned criminal was a large poster stating the verdict. For seven hours the limp body swayed on the gibbet, watched by curious crowds, before it was cut down and taken away for burial. On the same day, Attassi's cousin and alleged accomplice in spying for the U.S., Syrian Lieut. Colonel Abdel Muin Hakemi, 43, was shot...
Wooing the Russians. If Europe settles on a single system, that system is sure to spread over much of Africa and parts of Asia too. The chances of a firm verdict from Vienna look slim, however, because any committee finding must be unanimous; moreover, a decision would not bind any nation to go along. Yet the weight of majority opinion is expected to influence some vacillating nations to adopt one system or another, and Western Europe is so sharply split that the Soviet bloc will probably tip the Vienna vote...