Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life as Elemere Hoffman. Irving claims that Elmyr's fakes hang in prestigious museums all over Europe and America, but the so-called experts insist not. Others swear up and down that deHory signed the paintings he forged, making their sale illegal; the charming counterfeiter (no doubt at his lawyer's behest) denies the charge. The testimony conflicts like crazy...
...irritant but not cause for much outrage. Since 1867, Atlanta's Jews have had their own Standard Club, which admitted its first gentile member only last September. In fact, Atlanta's Big Mules could take some comfort from the fact that one of Standard's members, Lawyer Robert Lipshutz, plans to resign his membership as soon as Carter names him White House counsel...
...Though Marvin denied that such an agreement was ever made, the California court ruled in favor of his 36-year-old ex. The landmark decision, handed down last week, states that cohabitation without marriage gives both parties the right to share property if they separate. Said Michelle's lawyer, Marvin Mitchelson: "This decision will open up the courthouse door to everyone living together." The door better be revolving. According to surveys in California, there are more people in the 21-to-30 age group in the state living together than are actually married...
...surrendering a large chunk of perhaps the most profitable investment any British government has ever made. FORTUNE ranks BP fifth among the seven international oil companies?the so-called Seven Sisters ?with sales in 1975 of $17 billion. From London, Chairman David Steel, an affable Oxford-educated lawyer who is a tough negotiator, oversees a global empire. It embraces more than 650 production, refining and marketing subsidiaries in Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. (where BP has a production partnership with Standard Oil of Ohio for Alaska's North Slope oil and owns a quarter of Sohio...
Jonathan Silbert, Mason's lawyer, said yesterday when the students appeared before the Yale Executive Committee certain procedural rules, including a prohibition against self-incrimination and publication of personal and academic records without prior consent, were broken...