Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Synthetic Miracle. Late last month, as Bhave turned over to police a batch of 20 dacoits, emotional India went on a jag: bar associations pledged to supply defense counsel without charge, and Bhave's womenfolk garlanded the prisoners with tinsel like so many heroes. Even India's President Prasad sent Bhave a message of congratulations: "The whole nation looks with hope and admiration at the manner in which you have been able to arouse better instincts." In all the hullabaloo, no one paid much attention to the fact that Lakhan Singh, No. 1 dacoit on the still...
...badly ailing Capital Airlines last week there was a management shake-up that may well be the first in a series of steps toward merger. Out as general counsel and chairman of Capital's executive committee went Charles Murchison, the line's biggest stockholder (80,532 shares), who had hoped to become boss. In as board chairman went Aviation Trouble-shooter Thomas D. Neelands Jr., 57, longtime member of Capital's board (1948-58) and Wall Street investment banker, who has won a reputation as the man to find the money to save an airline...
...said Kuykendall, "if Mr. Mueller had tried to argue the merits of the case, I'd have shut him up." Kuykendall said that Kline had gone to Colorado and worked on the reduced refund. Explained Kuykendall: "We encouraged it. We have a tremendous backlog of cases." Asked Committee Counsel Robert W. Lishman: "Is it in the consumer's interest for the FPC to go for a lower settlement?" Replied Kuykendall: "You're oversimplifying. It's not in the public interest for such a company to go bankrupt...
Died. Colonel Henry Breckinridge, 73, onetime (1913-16) Assistant Secretary of War, markedly independent Democrat and Manhattan lawyer, who was Charles A. Lindbergh's counsel and unsuccessful intermediary after the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Leaving Kentucky at 27 to join Woodrow Wilson's Administration. Breckinridge fought hard to improve the pitifully weak U.S. Army, resigned when he felt that he had failed, and subsequently saw action in France during World War I. Later, he broke ranks to run against F.D.R. in four presidential state primaries in 1936, as a protest against...
...long story, Uncle Marco finally shows up, and proves to be a kind of lifelong peripatetic anarchist. His final moral counsel is: "See that you always perform actions, never gestures." But hardly anyone seems to live by that advice-except Author Pasinetti. His book, far from an empty gesture, is the kind of literary action few writers trouble to take any more; it is an old-fashioned book and uncommonly satisfying...