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...three Israeli judges who will decide his fate. In the amphitheater at his right will be the world's press, TV and radio correspondents. The latter clearly were the more important audience, for Eichmann's guilt already was clear; real purpose of the trial was to fix forever in the mind of the world the monstrous wartime crimes of the Nazis...
...TIME, Feb. 15, 1960). The third jury brushed aside Finch's claim that the shooting had been accidental, found him guilty of first-degree murder, her guilty of second-degree murder, and both guilty of conspiracy to murder. When the jury meets again this week to fix punishment, Finch could get death on his first-degree murder count, Carole life on her second-degree charge. But on the conspiracy count alone, the jury could sentence them both to the gas chamber at San Quentin. As the two old lovers left the courtroom last week, Finch suddenly took the stunned...
Under battle pressure, the artist often resorted to a sort of sketchbook shorthand-a line or two to fix the horizon ridges, a picket fence of pencil strokes for the men on the line. These were later worked up into more finished sketches, much of the detail supplied from the artist's own pocket reference book. "Infantry, cavalry and artillery soldiers," wrote Harper's Theo Davis, "each had their particular uniform, and besides these, their equipments, such as belts, swords, guns, cartridge boxes, and many other things, were different. As many as ten different saddles were...
...competitive" giants, General Electric and Westinghouse, and 44 of their executives. Long ago, faced with incontrovertible evidence gathered by the Eisenhower Administration's relentless trustbusters, the companies and individuals had pleaded guilty or nolo contendere (no contest) to charges that they conspired over the past seven years to fix prices and rig bids in the sale of some $7 billion worth of heavy electrical equipment (TIME, Feb. 29, 1960, et seq.). Now the moment of reckoning had come. First before the court came the lawyer for John H. Chiles Jr., 57, a vice president of Westinghouse, to plead...
...United Mine Workers can get him." And a fifth? "Hell, if we can't get him. we might as well quit. Go talk to him." A sixth? "No, but I'll fix that bastard...