Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could be maneuvered through Congress. The committee's senior Republican, William McCulloch of Ohio, also favors a five-year extension of the 1965 act. So does the N.A.A.C.P.'s Mitchell, who described the Administration's proposal as a "sophisticated, calculated and incredible effort by the chief lawyer of the United States to make it impossible to exercise the tools we have to ensure the right to vote...
...Legal Defense and Educational Fund, financed by the Ford Foundation. "We are about ten years behind the Negroes, and we must catch up," says Dr. Daniel Valdes, a Denver behavioral scientist. "But I think we will do it without extreme violence." Lawyer Donald Pacheco puts the plight of the Mexican American more bluntly: "We're the 'nigger' of ten years...
...baseball, Nixon likes to mingle with the players. Frank Gifford, the sports broadcaster who once played halfback for the Giants, recalls Nixon's days as a New York lawyer: "He is a football nut. He used to come to the dressing room and ask everybody probing questions about the game. When I lived near Yankee Stadium, I used to have people over after the game, maybe a dozen players, and Nixon would come. He didn't ask dumb questions." Sports stars are frequent guests at the White House; Arnold Palmer, Bart Starr and Billy Casper dropped by recently...
...league was started last year by Orthodox Rabbi Meir Kahane, 36, a former lawyer who helps edit an emotional weekly devoted to Jewish affairs and who ministers to the congregation of the Rochdale Village Traditional Synagogue in the New York City borough of Queens. "We see here the beginnings of the 1920s in prewar Germany," warns Kahane. "This is a question of Jewish survival-nothing else." The newspaper ad, which Kahane wrote, declares: "Maybe some people and organizations are too nice. Maybe-just maybe -nice people build their own road to Auschwitz...
...Cabinet appointments. Originally a protégé of Pompidou, Guichard was hired away by De Gaulle as a press and political aide, then rehired by Pompidou in 1962. Guichard gained an enviable knowledge of France's political geography while in charge of decentralizing French industry. A lawyer by training, Guichard has no particular expertise in education but has promised to carry on the reforms begun by outgoing Minister Edgar Faure. More important, Pompidou, a former classics teacher, has definite ideas on education. He has promised to "restore the authority of teachers and professors." Pompidou is known...