Word: ev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they could not testify. That advice was not lost on the formidable Percy Foreman when he set out to defend the assassin of Mar tin Luther King Jr. Foreman's way of doing that - to avoid having to argue be fore a jury against the damaging ev idence marshaled against James Earl Ray - was to make a deal with Prosecutor Phil M. Canale Jr. for a negotiated guilty plea. The result turned Ray's trial in Memphis into a formality that left unanswered questions of whether a conspiracy existed to murder King...
...Everett Dirksen's 73rd birthday, and the Illinois Senator opened the romp and circumstance by dipping into a voluminous chocolate cake. Then Ev marched his guests in to inspect his latest joy: the kidney-shaped heated indoor swimming pool that he and his wife have built at their Leesburg, Va., home. Both Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew stopped by to pay their respects, and unlike the pool-dunking days of the New Frontier, not a soul was dampened in the drink. "But it was still a fun party," reported Mrs. Dirksen. "The two elects and the birthday boy proposed...
Several years ago I underwent throat surgery to remove a cancer. The operation was a complete success but it left me with some hoarseness which makes me sound like a cross between Ev Dirksen and Andy Devine...
Critical judgment is the basis of all good reporting. In Robert F. Kennedy: The Myth and the Man (Trident Press, $6.95), Victor Lasky is simply critical. His singleminded judgment is that ev erything Robert Kennedy ever did was ill-motivated or wrong - usually both. To back that up, he has compiled 407 pages of quotations and anecdotes, mostly from newspapers, magazines, books and anonymous journalists and politicians. For example, as evidence that Kennedy was not far enough left on an issue, he quotes Ramparts. To bear wit ness that Kennedy was not far enough right, he cites William Buckley...
...shaky for more significant reasons. As one Miami lawyer explained: "Everybody knows that if you make restitution in a bad-check case your case will be dis missed on the first go-round. You wouldn't bribe anyone. It wouldn't be necessary." Moreover, the alleged ev idence against Gerstein also implicated three judges - all former members of Gerstein's staff. But at first neither Highsmith nor the Herald publicized the additional charges. Gerstein's ex planation was that they were so preposterous that the whole case - including the accusation against him - would have collapsed...