Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radiation by electronic appliances, 4) blanketing the states with tougher poultry-inspection rules, 5) federal standards on the purity and quality of fish, 6) a safety program for pleasure boats, 7) clearer warranties on appliances and a federal eye on the quality of repairs, and 8) a "consumers' counsel" in the Justice Department to speak up in court for that perpetual patsy, the consumer. "Do you foresee the repeal of Barnum's law?"* a newsman asked as Ramsey Clark glowingly outlined this point. Smiled Clark: "You never can tell...
Ever since a U.S. Supreme Court decision (TIME cover, April 29, 1966) threw out Danny Escobedo's murder confession because he was denied his right to counsel, Escobedo has been in and out of court on charges of burglary, possession of weapons and drugs. None of them stuck, partly because his lawyer argued that ruffled Illinois and U.S. authorities were unfairly picking on Danny in order to get revenge. His lawyer made the same plea last week as he defended Escobedo against charges of being involved in the possession and sale of 59 Ibs. of heroin. This time...
Experts active in Government, business, or education will lead the groups. Samuel V. Merrick, special counsel to Mayor Kevin White, will head the groups dealing with urban problems, along with Paul Parks, administrator of the Boston Model cities Program...
Miss Joan Lawler, the clerk at local draft board #17 in Cambridge, said a student with a II-S who turned in his draft card was recently reclassified 1-A because of Hershey's directive. She said he was the first registrant the board members allowed to have counsel with him at his personal interview. He is now exercising his right of appeal to the State Appeal Board...
...exasperated elders of the congregation demanded that he be brought to trial on charges of violating church discipline under provisions of the Presbyterian Book of Order. The trial, which began Dec. 9, was held in the basement of the church, with two members of the congregation serving as prosecution counsel. Baker-who had melodramatically nailed a copy of the hearing notice-to the church door on Reformation Sunday-acted as his own defense attorney. In a closing summation, he linked himself with Naboth of the Old Testament whose vineyard was stolen by King Ahab...