Word: timely
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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After Charles Manson delivered his extraordinary sermon against society last month (TIME, Nov. 30), his trial seemed all but ended. He refused to repeat his testimony for the jury and ordered silence for the three girls, who are his co-defendants in the Tate-LaBianca murders case. Since the defense had presented no witnesses, the only unfinished business was the lawyers' final arguments, various motions and the judge's charge to the jury. Then one of the defense attorneys vanished...
...Chamber of the Court of Appeals awarded $3,000 damages to Luca. Said the court: "The jockey must not, before arriving at the finish post, cease to urge his horse to fight for first, second or third place." Jockeys now fear that they may have to spend as much time in court as on the race track, fending off the suits of disgruntled bettors. Even race-track stodpers, who look for discarded ticket stubs, were heard to complain about the decision. If it holds up, racing fans will hang on to their stubs until the courts decide if losing jockeys...
...have his (or her) price. The entertainers often kick back part of their inflated fees to the producers, dishwashers pay their bosses for the opportunity to work, and waitresses pay off their captains. "There is a depth of corruption here that would leave even the Vietnamese breathless," reported TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief Don Neff. "A prominent banker, after his third drink, talks loudly about kickbacks: '$50,000, $75,000 off the top−so what's that?' A famous attorney declares in public: 'If he doesn't like it, I got friends who will...
...managers of Hughes Tool Co. in Houston hired their own private investigators to check up on Maheu. Aware of the probe, Maheu brought in his own private eyes to delve into the affairs of his Houston rivals and to keep watch outside Hughes' suite. At about the same time, various agencies of the Federal Government, the state of Nevada, Clark County and Las Vegas were all prying into the Hughes businesses. So many gumshoes were lurking around the Hughes operation that quite a few of them spent most of their time investigating one another...
...joust with Maine's Senator Owen Brewster before a congressional committee. Brewster demanded to know why Hughes had spent $18 million in Government funds and produced no flyable plane. Hughes won the publicity battle when he flew the plane for a mile at 70 ft.−the only time it has ever been in the air. After that, Republican "Hughes for President" clubs sprang up across the country (he simply ignored them...