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...professor; of cancer; in New Haven. A native of Bucharest, Rumania, Bickel emigrated to New York in 1939, manned a machine gun with the U.S. infantry in Italy and France and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School after the war. Later he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, who molded his approach to the law. Politically liberal, Bickel backed Robert Kennedy for President in 1968 and defended the New York Times in the Pentagon papers case in 1971, but often stunned liberal friends with his judicially conservative critiques of the Warren Court. Bickel held that the court...
Remember Chris Papagianis, Felix Adedeji, Demetrio Mena, and Emmanuel Ekama? They're all former Harvard soccer greats. And now there is an American preppie making a strong bid to join this prestigious foreign cast, sophomore striker Lyman Bullard...
...criminal law and civil rights, he has defended Chicago Seven Attorney William Kunstler, Black Panther Bobby Seale and Militant Angela Davis. He became principal architect of the campaign to abolish the death penalty, successfully arguing his case before the Supreme Court in 1972. A former clerk for the late Felix Frankfurter and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Amsterdam has a passion for underdogs of any kind. "After the revolution," he says jokingly, "I will be representing the capitalists...
...Felix the Fixer done it again? No one can yet say for sure, not even Felix G. Rohatyn, the 46-year-old Austrian-born partner in the New York investment-banking firm of Lazard Frères & Co. But Rohatyn has at least got the machinery started for a complicated and inventive deal between Textron Inc. and Lockheed Aircraft Corp. that will add new luster to Lazard Frères' reputation as masters of the art of rescuing faltering corporate giants by arranging mergers, reorganizations or financial aid. Says one Rohatyn admirer in the treasurer's office...
...life went on, probably with revised goals and lessened ambition. His qualifications are still impressive; Calkins's background contains what one associate calls "a hat-trick of credentials"--president of The Crimson in 1942, president of the Harvard Law Review, and clerkships with Justices Learned Hand and Felix Frankfurter...