Word: counsel
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IRVING PERLIN Human Relations Counsel New York City
...Wright has an unlikely background for an executive. Son of a Montana dentist, he worked through law school as an aide to Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler in the 1930s, later became an antitrust lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission, where he tangled with many businessmen-including U.S. Steel Counsel Roger Blough, who lost to Wright in a steel-pricing case. Changing sides in 1952, Wright was hired as Zenith's counsel with the job of cracking RCA's control over some TV patents. He won the case, has been in a rivalry with RCA ever since...
Three Strongmen. For the living, there remained the task of putting together a government. Premier Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Diem's longtime Vice President, appointed nine civilian ministers -mostly nonpolitical civil servants in the old regime. To counsel Tho's government, the brass named a 15-man "Council of Sages," including business and professional leaders. But it is the military that is running the country. Lieut. General Tran Van Don, 46, the polished, French-schooled staff officer who helped mastermind the coup, was appointed Defense Minister. Major General Ton That Dinh, 36, the aggressive, vain commander of the Saigon...
...could be as rough on lawyers as on defendants, often barked his caustic impatience when counsel seemed to him to be sluggish or ill-prepared. "His facial expressions and gestures," said one critic, "his intonations, his pauses at the proper moment, all clearly indicate his belief or disbelief in a witness' testimony." He got into rows with his colleagues too, once said in open court that he hoped another judge would "keep his filthy mouth shut." The remark brought official rebuke for "using a courtroom as a forum for vilification of a fellow jurist...
...Carrell Morris, Gordon McKay Professor of Sanitary Chemistry and a member of the water board, said last night that it would need "legal counsel to interpret the results." He observed, however, that there were no technical obstacles to discontinuing fluoridation once the board gave the order...