Word: benching
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Senator Robert Kennedy, who certainly knew what he was talking about, pronounced the introduction: "I am satisfied that he possesses the qualifications." U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren smiled down from the bench, and with that, Ted Sorensen, 39, a lawyer (University of Nebraska) who became John Kennedy's chief speechwriter, was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. His memoirs behind him, Sorensen has joined the Manhattan law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which once had a partner named Adlai Stevenson...
Sutures for Tendons. Larsen spent weeks in a cast and a year on crutches. He needed more bone grafts before he could walk with a leg brace and go to work, standing all day at a bench, repairing ignition armatures. With no tendon attachments, he could not bend his ankle, and although he got along for two more years with a gimpy gait, Dr. Byers was not satisfied. Last December he got Larsen back into the hospital, where orthopedists freed three major tendons from masses of scar tissue both above and below the old break, and joined them with steel...
...years on the bench, Oklahoma's U.S. District Court Judge Stephen S. Chandler, 65, earned a distinguished reputation as a specialist on streamlining the courts. His long experience won him a place on an American Bar Association committee set up to study the problem of removing "aged, ill or otherwise infirm" judges who, despite their disability, cling to their office. But in December, when the judges of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals met to devise a method to dispense with the services of a judge, they did not ask Chandler's advice. It was Chandler himself whom...
...court is expected to hand down a ruling in ample time for the South's spring primaries. Meanwhile, one of the most succinct arguments in support of the law came not from Katzenbach but from Associate Justice Hugo Black, a native of Alabama. Said Black from the bench: "It's politically known to everybody in the country that these tests have been used to deny people their right to vote...
George Neville, who was riding the bench at the start of last Wednesday's Dartmouth game, has been named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference team of the week for his performance in the game...