Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge nine months later, Thomas was ready to mount a powerful and eloquent defense, having completed most of his first year at the University of Virginia law school. "Fortunately," he says, "the judge dismissed my case. But not without proclaiming that 'this doesn't mean the court thinks there is anything noble about the press.' " Ignoring that wisdom, Thomas came to TIME shortly after receiving his J.D. in 1977, joining Reporter-Researcher Raissa Silverman in the magazine's Law section. This fall Thomas will move to TIME'S Washington bureau to cover what Correspondent Brew...
...gates. Complaining that they had been continually cheated by merchants on the strip, the sailors went on a window-smashing, rock-throwing rampage that ended only when the Shore Patrol and North Chicago police officers charged into the mob, swinging their billy clubs. Afterward, 58 trainees were court-martialed...
...counts in the U.S. indictment. It sets forth a case that is scarcely less complicated than a New York subway map; criminal lawyers suggest that a jury might find the evidence too confusing to vote conviction. More over, one of the chief witnesses against him, Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli, the court-appointed liquidator of Sindona's bankrupt Italian empire, was killed last month by three gunmen in Milan, a day before he was to sign a 50-page deposition for U.S. prosecutors...
Dolan can spend as much as he raises, despite the federal restriction that normally limits one political action committee to $10,000 per candidate. The reason is that N.C.P.A.C. is exploiting the "independent expenditure" loophole permitted under a 1976 Supreme Court ruling. This allows free spending provided that there is no connection between the advertiser and the political beneficiary of the advertising. In Idaho, Church does not even have an announced opponent yet. His probable rival is Republican Congressman Steven Symms, who says that he has "no reason to be interested in a dirty campaign" against Church...
...pretty low profile among students--despite his 6 ft. 8 in. height. Fox is the final arbiter of policies affecting undergraduate life--everything from how expensive your breakfast is to how spacious your suite is. Fox also wears another hat as chairman of the Administrative Board. Harvard's High Court for students who who are in trouble, academically or otherwise...