Word: crutcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report was directed by Jerome C. Byrne, 39, a labor-law specialist and honors graduate of Harvard Law School, whose partnership in the respected Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher made him seem a sensible choice to investigate the eight months of unrest at Cal. But when Regent Chairman Edward Carter saw the report, he angrily called Byrne a "young, inexperienced guy, unaware of the pitfalls in a university administration." President Clark Kerr buttoned his lip, but was reported to be upset...
...Into the shotput circle at California's Occidental College strode Dallas Crutcher Long III, known to his friends as the Prince of Whales. Hefting a 16-lb. iron ball in one hammy hand, he crouched low, tucked the ball behind his right ear, and began to inch back his left foot like a second-story man feeling his way down a ladder in the dark. Suddenly, he dipped and flung himself bodily across the ring. A grunt, a gasp-the shot soared through the air and thudded into the turf 66 ft. 3½ in. away. For the second...
...Private Citizen Nixon turned back toward California, the prediction was that next month he would announce his affiliation with the prestigious Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher-a job that will fulfill his salary requirements and give him the freedom he seeks. In the fall, when the political fortunes of Jack Kennedy and Pat Brown are clearer, he will make the momentous decision on where to run and when. For the moment, Dick Nixon was closing no doors, and there was only one certainty in his political future. Said he: "I will not retire from public life...
...base could he best operate? Sifting through a pile of gilt-edged offers from all over the U.S., Nixon politely rejected several bids to head foundations, universities and corporations. He has all but decided to take a senior partnership in a Los Angeles corporate-law firm, probably Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, which counts among its clients such blue chips as Swift & Co., Safeway Stores Inc.-and the Republican Party of California. The pay would probably come to a tidy sum of more than $100,000 a year before taxes...