Word: client
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tonys where everyone is a star. He can provide them all with limousines but not private dressing rooms and dressers. (In the 1968 show, Marlene Dietrich was spotted massaging Pearl Bailey's perennially aching feet.) Agents can also be a nuisance, carping just before air time that their client's intro is 37 words of praise shorter than someone else...
...defendants are being tried on charges stemming from the slaying of Alex Rackley, a fellow Panther and alleged police informer. Like many defense lawyers, Seale's attorney, Charles Garry, sees his client as a victim. He insists that a black militant cannot obtain a panel of impartial jurors from voter rolls, which are stocked largely with white, middle-class citizens. None of them, he claims, "could possibly judge an enemy of the Establishment...
Despite the tedium, the atmosphere was tense from the beginning. After Mrs. Huggins' attorney, Catherine Roraback, noticed a prospective juror trembling on the stand, she asked, "Are you afraid of my client?" The reply was a shaky "yes." Scores of veniremen, faced with the prospect of months away from their jobs and families, were swiftly excused simply because they stated that they had an opinion of the defendants' guilt. "These people aren't dumbbells," Mulvey commented. "They don't want to sit on this case...
Nixon's Family Assistance Plan (FAP). Pat Moynihan's brainchild, is at least a step away from the old dependency relationship of client-to-department. FAP would provide a minimum income ($1600 rock-bottom) for everyone. It does not allow nearly enough money. But the concept of a minimum life sustenance for everyone would help strip away the stigma of welfare...
Leonard B. Bondin, visiting professor of Law at Harvard and defense attorney for Harrisburg defendant Eqbal Ahmad, filed a motion this week on behalf of all defense attorneys in the Harrisburg case requesting that charges against his client and the other seven defendants be dropped...