Word: defend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even to measure the incidence of youthful drug use, much less to control it. There are scarcely any treatment centers in the country exclusively for youthful addicts. In New York City, petty-minded authorities are trying to close one of them. This month in court, Dr. Densen-Gerber will defend Odyssey House against charges of operating without a license and violating the building code...
Still, he is hired to defend a physician (played by Robert Colbert) who has been accused of murdering his very-nekkid wife, but who claims that the real killer was a bedroom intruder with a "ghost-like" shape. Predictably, Petrocelli is denied requests for a change of venue and sequestration of the jury, is harassed by the state troopers and pelted by the citizens, and has his client labeled a "wife-slayer" by the television commentator prior to the outcome. Besides that, everyone keeps mispronouncing his name...
...Petrie had a great game offensively," said Dover, who had to defend against the 6'3" guard. "I kept running into three or four picks [on each Princeton offensive series] throughout the game, and he started getting the spl?-second he needed to score on those screens...
Died. James B. Donovan, 53, New York lawyer who negotiated the trade of convicted Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel for U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers; of a heart attack; in Brooklyn. Appointed to defend Abel at his 1957 trial, Donovan convinced U.S. authorities it was in their interest to spare the agent's life and use him as trade bait; after Powers was captured, his proposition paid off. During 1962-63 he also negotiated the release of 9,700 Bay of Pigs prisoners, their relatives and other political hostages...
Because Saturday night, a Harvard team that hopes to defend its Beanpot championship against Boston University tonight lost to the worst squad in the East's Division 1. The Crimson was beaten by Pennsylvania, 5-4 in overtime at the Quaker's Cherry Hill Arena...