Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only occasionally: a few shopping trips to nearby Newport Beach and Los Angeles; infrequent dinners with Dick at local restaurants; one public appearance, alone, at ceremonies naming a public grade school after her; a visit to China with her husband; a theater outing in New York with Daughter Tricia Cox (who, on learning of her mother's stroke, headed at once for California...
...State litigator, points out that "all kinds of questions come up during a trial -the suppression of evidence, improper evidence before the jury, constitutional rights. The issues get beclouded by all these other things. But fairness and justice shouldn't be sacrificed on the altar of speed." Frank Cox, who has been defending one of the San Quentin Six, has had little time or energy to reflect on the wider ramifications of his ordeal. Anxiously anticipating the trial's end, he says wearily, "I feel like I've got a parole date...
ARCHIBALD COX, 64, a sixth-generation descendant of Connecticut's Roger Sherman, won acclaim as the Watergate special prosecutor who insisted that a President, like any citizen, is accountable under the law. Now back at Harvard as a law professor. Cox believes the Watergate drama was a profound affirmation of the faith that the Declaration of Independence places in ordinary citizens. For him, "the most moving scene" occurred when Watergate grand jurors-"a fair cross section of men and women, black and white"-were polled one at a time by Judge John J. Sirica about whether they wished...
...Cox's view, the framers of the Declaration were "supreme realists who had no illusions about the new nation they had founded." They did not expect it to be perfect. Says he: "Democracy is frequently diverted. It's slow, and it takes a lot of wasted effort. I do believe in progress, as the framers did. A lot of people think that because they can't have the millennium tomorrow, democracy isn't worth the effort. But that's not what human life has ever been about. Roger Sherman and the other patriots would...
...Drink this. You are going to need it because you are going down into a very cold, scary mine!' Lots of love and chicken soup helped me through the trip." But among his heaviest losses was the death two years ago of his closest friend, Comedian Wally Cox, a childhood friend from back in Evanston, Ill. "He was my brother. I can't tell you how much I miss and love that man," Brando says. "I have Wally's ashes in my house. I talk to him all the time...