Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect on him. People who come just out of college are likely to get molded by the Law School. In a way, I suppose that's why they're there." But he says that won't happen to him, that he'll leave without having turned into a real lawyer--a species for which he does not seem to have a great deal of respect...
JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS were separated for long periods during the 22-year period the book spans. During their courtship and the early years of their marriage, Adams was often away practicing law in different towns. Then, the First and Second Continental Congresses drew the Braintree lawyer to Pennsylvania until 1777 when an appointment to diplomatic duties in France and Holland splintered his family for years. Out of these years apart come the letters...
...become a TV repairman, but dropped out after two weeks because he found the courses too difficult. The school by then had already sold the loan to a credit union, which is now trying to collect the $1,500 from the Government. Dr. Ward and his wife Cheryl, a lawyer, declared themselves bankrupt at the start of their careers and thus unable to repay $32,000 in student loans, so the Government was stuck with that bill...
...dropouts like Ponce for the money or collect from the Government. The Senators heard testimony that at least $312,000 of the school's money found its way into Peters' personal accounts. W.C.S. folded in 1973. Peters was excused from testifying because of ill health. His lawyer told TIME that Peters feels "he is a victim of a gigantic bureaucracy...
Died. Paul Aldermandt Porter, 71, eminent Washington lawyer and raconteur, who held a string of important federal posts three decades ago; after choking on a bite of lobster in a Washington restaurant. Porter worked his way through Kentucky Wesleyan College and the University of Kentucky College of Law with newspaper jobs, and in 1929 became editor of the La Grange (Ga.) News. He served as publicity director for the Democratic National Committee during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 campaign, later became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, head of the Office of Price Administration, then the ambassador leading...