Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James sued Powell for libel, went to court, won a $211,500 jury verdict, which a judge later cut down to $46,500. To avoid paying off, Powell has since steered clear of New York, spent most of his time commuting between Capitol Hill, where he manages to appear for two or three days every week or so, and his villa in Puerto Rico. Interest on his evaded libel penalty has increased the amount owed to $52,000, and last week a jury, reviewing the whole history of the case, awarded Mrs. James an additional $210,000 for a total...
...final verdict will not be in until the scientists have analyzed their bountiful crop of pictures. Meanwhile, there will be still more unmanned shots at the moon. Man's most intricate machines will peer at the moon from all angles, prod its surface and map its contours with cautious patience before man himself essays that ambitious voyage across space...
...Administration's verdict on charter flights followed a 90-minute meeting yesterday morning at which Watson and others questioned HSA officials on a report by Dustin M. Burke '52, the general manager...
This would never do. Summarily, Nkrumah fired the chief justice who had presided, declared the verdict void and ordered the five retried. With a new, and presumably wiser, judge on the bench, the retrial was held at Christiansborg Castle, the massive, 300-year-old redoubt that the Redeemer some times uses as executive headquarters. This time none of the five had a lawyer-perhaps understandable in view of the fact that the chief counsel for Adamafio and Adjei during the first trial had himself since been jailed. At one point Adamafio announced with resignation that he had thought over...
...hysterically summoned, whereupon the original authors sued to enjoin the opening. The New York Supreme Court refused to issue the injunction-thus leaving the case to what turned out to be a hanging jury: the New York reviewers. As Herald Tribune Columnist Dick Schaap summed up the first-night verdict: "Hitler got better notices in World War II." There was no second night, and Kelly bombed out, $650,000 in the red. In the feast-or-famine history of Broadway, there has never been a shorter run for the money...