Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during crossexamination; the envelope is often empty. During direct examination of his client, he says, a good lawyer will stand at the far end of the jury box so that the jurymen can focus their attention on the witness without having their attention distracted or their view obstructed by counsel. But in cross-examination of a hostile witness, the lawyer will move close to the witness stand so the jury can closely watch every reaction in the duel between two adversaries. During crossexamination, the witness should be held under tight rein and not be given an opportunity to tender more...
Other recipients of citations include astronaut Virgil (Gus) Grissom; Newton N. Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and Theodore C. Sorenson, special counsel to the President. All the winners are under...
...Nuremberg, Schell's counsel for the defense is a brilliant young lawyer intent on lifting some of the guilt from German shoulders. Citing a precedent from U.S. law back at the U.S. judges, he snaps a book shut and announces in truncated accents that the opinion he had read was from "Oliver Wendell Holmes." His quick-flashing smile is no smile at all, disappearing as swiftly as the sound of clicked heels. A young, black-haired, deep-eyed man with a jut jaw and a strong, handsome face, he looks improbable in rimless glasses and courtroom robes...
Died. Harold Lee ("Jerry") Giesler, 77, canny counsel for two generations of Hollywood celebrities in distress, whose courtroom histrionics won him fame as "The Magnificent Mouthpiece"; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills (see SHOW BUSINESS...
Expunge Failure. U.S. Trust prides itself on the wisdom of its counsel (the name of one of its presidents, Lyman J. Gage, * who was a failure around the turn of the century, has been expunged from its corporate history). It has had to test its advice in action. As controlling stockholder, it has had to step in to straighten out management problems, at times has found itself running an insurance company, a machinery maker, a food processor, a coal-mining firm, and a molasses company. To settle the estate of one wealthy New York lawyer, the bank merged three small...