Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attorney General promised further prosecutions. But, obviously reluctant to pursue the case further, he delayed on the chance that the judge in any Kearney trial would throw out the indictment. Instead, Kearney's lawyer, famed Washington Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, went to court and demanded so much information from the FBI that the trial was repeatedly postponed...
DIED. George Cory, 57, moody songwriter who penned the music for an international hit, I Left My Heart in San Francisco; of a drug overdose; in San Francisco. After writing more than 200 songs with indifferent success, Cory was approached in 1961 by Singer Tony Bennett, who needed a number to highlight a San Francisco engagement and salvage a fading career. Cory and his lyricist partner Douglass Cross pulled a dusty, eight-year-old tune from their trunk and the trio made a fortune...
Many outsiders see Washington law as a world of fixing, influence peddling and lobbying over lunch. Insiders insist that, while a few superstars like Edward Bennett Williams or Clark Clifford have considerable access to top officials, the image is vastly distorted. Says one associate: "New York lawyers spend a lot of time poring over statute books. We spend time on the phone-often with the same public-access person available to John Q. Citizen-and then explain the situation to the client. It's usually awfully mundane...
From Mozambique, where he was on a 15-day junket, Diggs last week professed his innocence. But months before leaving the country he used some $8,000 raised by his friends to hire a lawyer from the firm headed by famed Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams. If convicted, Diggs faces up to five years in jail on each count, and fines totaling...
First Team: Goal-Mike Laycock (Brown); Defense-Peter Shier (Cornell) and Tim Bothwell (Brown); Forwards-Lance Nethery (Cornell), Roy Kerling (Cornell), Tom Cullity (Penn), and Jim Bennett (Brown...