Word: lawman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supporting cast. Spooked by reports that followers of the late Malcolm X planned to avenge their leader's death by assassinating Black Muslim Clay, some 300 Lewiston police, county sheriffs, state troopers, firemen and civil defense workers milled around the arena in a ratio of roughly one lawman for every 14 fans...
...professional bondsman, in business to make money, understandably leary of poor defendants who can neither put up collateral nor pay the usual fee: $100 for each $1,000 of bail. But what to do about it? By far the most impressive answers came not from a lawman but from a retired chemical engineer named Louis Schweitzer, who reported on a bold new experiment that may soon revolutionize the U.S. bail system...
...Edgar Hoover, 69, has been head of the FBI so long that people forget he could have been replaced by any incoming Administration. Last week he completed 40 years in the post, and Lyndon Johnson weighed in with his own endorsement. Next New Year's Day the top lawman will reach the compulsory retirement age of 70. "I know you wouldn't think of breaking the law," said L.B.J. So to offset the requirement, the President signed a special executive order that will allow the hale and hearty bachelor to continue serving "for an indefinite period of time...
Formal title: "First World Conference on World Peace Through Law." Ceremonially welcomed by the King and Queen of Greece in the marble halls of the Athens Hilton were 1,000 jurists from 105 nations. The conference was the culmination of a movement launched five years ago by World-Lawman Charles Sylvanus Rhyne, past president of the American Bar Association, and followed a series of preparatory sessions in Costa Rica, Japan, Nigeria and Italy. Said Rhyne in his keynote address: "We share one great ideal which transcends our diversity-a belief that in the rule of law lies the route...
...Allen's expressions were an exception in Louisville-and much more typical was an Alabama lawman who said that the sessions were such that he only wished his mayor and city council could have been there...