Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professed practicing homosexual. As such, he has become a celebrity in the armed forces, which every year drums out hundreds of homosexuals on grounds that they "seriously impair discipline, good order, morale and security." Tall and redhaired, Matlovich has become, in the words of American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer David Addlestone, "a beautiful case" for legally challenging the military's prohibition against homosexuals...
...Theater and the Met's director of production. Levine will be only the second man in Met history to hold the title music director, and he is expected to have more authority than the first, Conductor Rafael Kubelik, who quit the job in 1974. Bliss, a Wall Street lawyer and former Met board president during the Rudolf Bing era, thinks highly of Levine and has made no secret of his own reluctance to get involved in day-to-day artistic decisions...
...issues, to be sure, are important enough. One is a constantly vexing problem of antitrust law: how to define what "market" is involved. Raymond Carlson, 52, the Justice Department's chief lawyer for the case, contends that IBM controls a dominant 70% of the market for general-purpose computers and related equipment. IBM lawyers, led by Manhattan Attorney Thomas Barr, 44, and former Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, reply that the true market in which the company competes is the much broader one for all kinds of electronic data-processing equipment, and that in any case a 70% share...
...supervised the 1956 settlement of the last such case and ruled that IBM should divest itself of or reform much of its electric accounting-machine division. But by then the business had changed so radically that IBM already was voluntarily moving out of such machines. The Government, says Washington Lawyer C. Jack Pearce, "had to sue the third time because the first two times didn't do it-whatever it was they were trying...
...wasn't used to this stuff--I grew up a couple of miles from Shea Stadium, named for a hotshot New York lawyer, ultramodern, no bleachers. General Admission filled with clean-cut cheerful-looking kids whose mothers encouraged them to play at Little League, but just so it didn't interfere with their schoolwork. I got my wallet stolen, once, and my program lots of times--but after all I never really scored properly, S's for singles and O's for outs, so that seemed only fair, apart from the thieves' being bigger and stronger than I was. Maybe...