Word: counsel
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...enough lead can cause sterility in men, miscarriages and stillbirths among women. The Romans, says Gilfillan, especially the upper classes, knew little of lead's dangers, and they ingested more than enough of the metal to make trouble a certainty. Not only did Pliny the Elder counsel that "leaden and not bronze pots should be used," but lead was also important in the manufacture of water pipes, cups, sieves, cosmetics, external medicines, paint, and, ironically, coffins...
...Society" speeches, or from Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., who is also known as the best gagwriter of the lot. Military strategy? Roswell Gilpatric, ex-Deputy Secretary of Defense, may offer suggestions. Civil rights? Burke Marshall, Bobby's civil rights chief at Justice and now IBM's general counsel, offers ideas. James Allen, New York State's commissioner of education; Dr. Eugene McCarthy of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons; Richard Boone, director of Walter Reuther's Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty; and Economists J. K. Galbraith of Harvard and Edwin Kuh of M.I.T...
...accuses the commission, of hurrying through the investigation in slipshod fashion, because it wanted to establish a "version of the truth" that would "reassure the nation and protect the national interest." Rush to Judgment, now a bestseller, is by New York Attorney Mark Lane, who was retained as counsel for a time by Oswald's mother. Lane's book consists of a minutely detailed recital of what he might have done as adversary for the defense if Oswald had gone on trial. He concludes that "the commission covered itself with shame...
...Assessors are supposed to be familiar with the customs of the accused's tribe, and Kinsey had to settle for one U.S. citizen, Soil Conservationist Gail Bagley of Elsberry, Mo. The second assessor was a bespectacled Tanzanian economist, Fred Mugobi, who was at least American-educated. The defense counsel was a British-trained, Kenya-born attorney of Greek parentage-Byron Georgiadis...
Punishment Ceiling. Represented by counsel at his second trial in February 1965, Patton pleaded not guilty, and at this point his experience differed sharply from that of Clarence Gideon. Patton was found guilty a second time. In pronouncing sentence, the trial judge said, "I would give you five more years than I am giving you, but I am allowing you credit for the time you have served. Judgment of the court is that the defendant be imprisoned for a term of 20 years...