Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case. Griswold, after talking with Wallace, called the case to the attention of the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights, Inc., according to Bernard G. Segal, co-chairman of the Committee. The group, in turn, has retained George M. Allen, former president of the Richmond Bar Association, as counsel for Wallace...
...have to make the distinction between Harvard as an institution and as a group of individuals," Monro said. As an individual, he indicated, he would welcome a fund-raising campaign to pay for legal counsel for Perdew and three other students in Northern colleges who were jailed nearly two months...
...despite grim Selective Service warnings. Yet, each year the maze of Selective Service regulations becomes a little more difficult to negotiate. Policies change, rules are added, and the whims of local draft boards often defy logic. Recognizing these facts, Yale, for the past two years, has offered students the counsel of a civilian military service advisor, a faculty member with extensive knowledge of current Selective Service policies to whom students may go for objective facts and advice. The military service advisor does not devote himself to helping Yalies avoid the draft, but as a civilian unassociated with the Selective Service...
...once Harvard can learn from Yale; reliable civilian advice on Selective Service policies has been long overdue here. A Harvard student presently seeking such counsel from the registrar's office gets only a "we don't know." From Dean Monro he hears that "the whole situation is too complicated for us to get involved with." And advisors at the Office for Graduate and Career Plans tell him "we only know what we read in the papers." With the draft age moving down to 22, the inadequacy of such answers and the responsibility of the University to inform itself and then...
...Skeptics suggested that junior officers would hardly furnish them with anything but a rosy view so long as the boss-General Harkins-was hovering within earshot. But McNamara and Taylor are tough-minded men, with long experience at sorting fancy from fact. So far, they were keeping their counsel, doing lots of listening, little talking, as they moved from one military field headquarters to another...