Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the University community was still vacationing last September when Harvard and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library announced joint plans for the Library site at the Bennett St. M.B.T.A. yards. Harvard would build a massive new complex to centralize the study of government, economics, and international relations near the Memorial Library. All offices now located in the Littauer would be moved. The total cost: between $12 and $15 million...
...provides a better answer to that question than Edward Bennett Williams, 46, the country's top criminal lawyer. Williams has passionately defended ex-Teamster Boss Dave Beck, Bernard Goldfine and Adam Clayton Powell, to say nothing of assorted Communists, spies and murderers. Williams helped Jimmy Hoffa beat a bribery rap, got Tax Evader Frank Costello out of prison, opened the mails to the peephole magazine Confidential. Happily for moralists, he is also a loser on occasion: he failed to foil Senate censure of the late Joe McCarthy, and last week he lost the case of Bobby Baker...
...jury-and yet the trial "crucible," in which he so firmly believes, condemned his client. The winner in the Baker trial, U.S. Prosecutor William O. Bittman, is a Williams fan too. Says Bittman: "If Bobby Baker had come to see me with the same facts he put before Edward Bennett Williams, I'm sure I would have fought just as hard-maybe not as well...
Washington whizbang would elect to take the stand. Yet after the prosecution rested its case, Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams called Baker as his first witness. Displaying little of the bravado of his less troubled days, Bobby calmly told the jury of sundry influence-peddling deals. But his own role, he maintained, had been little more than that of an errand boy for Kerr...
...horrid documentary interest, even if it need not be confused with El Greco's best work. Tony Smith's huge constructions have a presence (even if they are ordered by phone) that a pile of concrete blocks by Carl Andre have not. Something called Liaison, by John Bennett, has some strange charm, looming like a cross between an oversized scuba diver and a mechanical caricature of an elephant (though it's hard to see in what corner of the living room it would fit). But there is no such justification for those Euclid stairs; even...