Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitten Fleet Street reporters chipped in to pay for Podola's defense. But when the time came for Podola's trial last week, it was neither police brutality nor ordinary insanity at the time of the crime that was offered as Podola's defense. Instead, Defense Counsel Frederick Lawton, Q.C., argued that "a very, very severe fright," possibly triggered by the events of Podola's arrest, had "brought about his loss of memory...
...signs of Podola's "withdrawal," one doctor said that Podola "liked to keep near the wall when he moved along the corridor." "It is an accepted thing that distinguished scholars like to walk near the wall," observed Mr. Justice Davies. "Dr. Johnson did it all his life," volunteered Counsel Lawton amid laughter, "going along touching doorposts down Fleet Street...
Oddly, this break in the case did the sergeants no immediate tangible good. At last week's session of their piecemeal trial -which has averaged one hearing every ten days-defense counsel requested that all but one of the sergeants be released on the ground that the evidence against them was not strong enough to warrant continued detention, particularly since much of had been supplied by Capin and Suyol-cu. Judge Celal Varol refused. He also refused to release the men into NATO ustody until the trial ends...
Born. To Robert Francis Kennedy, 33, former chief counsel of the Senate Rackets Committee, who resigned last week after three years of tireless probing, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 31: their seventh child, third daughter; in Washington. Name: Mary Kerry. Weight...
...Sullivan & Cromwell in 1933. He entered the Army Air Corps in 1942, served overseas with the Air Transport Command, left in 1946 as a colonel. After two years of Washington law practice, he joined the Manhattan law firm of Debevoise, Plimpton & McLean in 1948, was vice president and corporate counsel to American Airlines when he was summoned to the Pentagon...