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...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, who was found guilty of, among other things...
...doors in my house/ Are used every day/ For closing rooms/ And locking children away." But Pauline Costello, 5, knows how to defeat...
Past clients include Bobby Baker, Jimmy Hoffa, Joseph McCarthy, Adam Clayton Powell, and Frank Costello. The more obnoxious the client is in society's eyes, the more likely that Williams will take the case in order to demonstrate the constitutional guarantee of counsel to everyone. A full and fair defense is especially necessary for the defendent already condemned by public opinion. Political and moral problems, outside the legal process, threaten the individual rights of such people, he says...
...less reluctant to hide his Republican credentials, partially cause they were so obvious. Richardson had been an Asst. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Eisenhower as well as the Eisenhower-appointed United States Attorney for Massachusetts. Equally important to Richardson, however, was the Democratic opposition. John Costello, a member of the Executive Council (a tiny relic of Colonial days which reviewed most of the Governor's appointments) proved to be a not very energetic, inarticulate campaigner. In the same election the voters stripped the Executive Council, which had an unsavory reputation, of most of its powers...
...Maryland-Villanova duel should be as close as any the IC4A's have seen. The Terps have strength in the field events with Frank Costello, the only 7-foot high jumper in the field, three 15-foot pole vaulters, two javelin throwers who have hit 225 feet, and two 23-foot broad jumpers. They also have Lee in the sprints...