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When I pointed out that there were probably three or four hundred graduate students in my ward alone, that most could be expected to feel as I do about the Shea Bill, and that we would remember this when we next got inside a voting booth, Senator McCann was singularly unperturbed. He bad been in this business sixteen years, he said, and the "so-called Harvard group" had never made much difference in his political career...
Besides Kiely, five faculty members and three students will serve on the committee. The faculty members are professors Reuben A. Brower and David D. Perkins '51, assistant professors John R. Maynard '63 and Kevin O. Starr, and teaching fellow Mark W. Booth. Student representatives have not yet been chosen...
...bring order to the court, a committee of lawyers and architects is investigating the use of glass isolation booths in which a defendant can hear the proceedings but not be heard himself. Such a booth was employed in the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann. But in that case the Israeli prosecutors used it to protect Eichmann from possible assassination-not as a muzzle. Even so, the booth smacks of suppression like...
...blown up by standard ventilation fans which are kept running during the performance. This continuous flow of air allows for holes in the set: several of the pieces have doors which are used during the course of the play. And in the lobby there is a plastic recruiting booth in case you want to join His Majesty's Imperial Indian Army. The audience loves it: one man had so much fun playing inside the lobby bubble that he lost his seat for the second...
...from the defense table shouting insults at the judges and witnesses. Such disruptions can make it virtually impossible to conduct a fair trial -thus, of course, fulfilling the defendants' angry prophecy. Members of the American Institute of Architects and the American Bar Association are discussing a soundproof plastic booth to be rigged with a telephone to the defense lawyer and a sound system enabling the defendant to hear the proceedings-but not be heard. The defendant would thus be reduced to pantomime protest. It sounds practical, but the larger question is what damage the judicial system will suffer...