Word: lawyer
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Carter got elected Governor in 1970, and within three months Georgia's Senator Richard Russell died. Kirbo remembers driving over to the Capitol to offer Carter his list of candidates for Russell's seat. But Carter wanted to name Kirbo. The sagacious country lawyer declined; he preferred to stay at home in Georgia. A month later Carter turned to Kirbo again: he wanted him as state party chairman. Kirbo hated the idea but agreed, and for almost three years he tolerated the job only because Carter wanted him to. "He was a lousy state chairman. Charlie is just...
Whether Wilkins retires at year's end or next July, the search for his successor is still on. Among the leading candidates: Memphis Lawyer Benjamin Hooks, 51, the only black member of the Federal Communications Commission; Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, 36; N.A.A.C.P. Lobbyist Clarence Mitchell, 65, sometimes described as "the 101st Senator"; N.A.A.C.P. Official Gloster Current, 63, who now handles many of the organization's administrative details; and Gustav Heningburg, 46, director of the Newark Urban Coalition...
Convinced that the N.A.A.C.P. needed some fresh leadership, Board Chairman Margaret Bush Wilson, 57, a St. Louis lawyer, and other directors began to act independently of him to remedy what they saw as fiscal mismanagement and sloppy record keeping. Earlier this year Wilson's "Majority Caucus" stripped Wilkins of the power to hire and fire top assistants. Today, the search committee of the N.A.A.C.P. is not consulting with Wilkins on his successor...
Died. Shad Polier, 70, South Carolina-born white civil rights lawyer, who won prominence in 1931 by joining the defense team that waged a long, ultimately successful fight to save the lives of the nine black defendants in the landmark Scottsboro case, which established that blacks could no longer be excluded from juries; of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan...
...staff has forced the disclosure of massive overseas payoffs by the likes of Gulf Oil, Lockheed, Northrop and United Brands. It has also encouraged more than 100 other companies to make voluntary confessions of unethical activities. And the end is not in sight. As a New York City securities lawyer puts it, "Stanley just cannot stand the thought that somewhere in the world someone is doing wrong and not being punished...