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...five-minute buzzer sounded summoning Senators to cast their votes, Sandra Day O'Connor, 51, wrung her hands nervously and awaited her fate in an anteroom near the Senate floor. "This is the longest five minutes of my life," she said with an anxious smile. Yet her fate was never in doubt. By a vote of 99 to 0,* the Senate made Judge O'Connor Justice O'Connor, the Supreme Court's first female member in its 191 years. Even Republican Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, the only member of the Judiciary Committee who refused to recommend...
...longest line of new cars this fall belongs to Ford. The No. 2 carmaker is adding four-door versions of its small E cort and Lynx cars, as well as a scaled-down model of the Lincoln Continental that will sell for about $21,000. The trim new luxury car, which gets 17 m.p.g. in city driving, is intended to draw drivers away from sporty foreign cars like Mer cedes and BMW. Beams Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell: "I've personally sold half a dozen of them already...
...world's longest vertical drop--147 feet...
...innocent. In Burma one traditional method was to make each party light candles of equal size; whoever had the candle that lasted longest was the winner. In Borneo the opponents poured lime juice on two shellfish; the decision depended on which fish squirmed first. Though some of the roots of the jury system can be traced back more than a thousand years to the Carolingian kings of Continental Europe, such alternatives as trial by combat and trial by ordeal endured for centuries. Today the idea of trial by jury is enshrined in several guarantees of the U.S. Constitution. The Sixth...
Reasonable enough treatment of prisoners. But these were not the defendants; they were the jurors. The trial was the prosecution of the so-called Pontiac Ten, which dragged on for nearly eight months until last May, making it one of the longest criminal trials in U.S. history. More than 1,000 potential jurors were questioned by batteries of lawyers, and each side had 120 peremptory challenges. Jury selection alone took five months, and the jurors were sequestered during the whole trial. "How would I describe the experience?" asks Juror Harry Chartrand, 64, a retired electrical worker. "In two words: Lousy...