Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then nothing and something happen. Laura and Jim remain at loggerheads, while a swarm of supporting players takes over the stage. Laura's beloved brother, killed in Korea, returns to haunt her. Bearing a blunted spear is her husband Harry, a disappointed lawyer-politician now resigned to tinkering with the Massachusetts Democratic Party machine. In come Jim's parents, a bewildered, gin-swilling mother and a gambling father off on a lifetime losing streak. The cast swells to include an Italian immigrant, a Jewish real estate tycoon and assorted Cogan relatives. Without warning, what might have been just...
While Vins has been held in a Kiev jail awaiting trial, his mother Lydia, 68, herself fresh from a three-year term, has tried to rally Western support, seeking in particular, a sympathetic lawyer. The Christians' response has been quiet and ineffectual. The World Council of Churches requested information and permission to send an observer, but got no reply. The Vins family approved a Norwegian judge as counsel, but he and three members of Parliament who wanted to attend the trial were refused visas. Last month Baptist World Alliance leaders-in Moscow for the All-Union...
...often experienced books simultaneously. In addition to Forster, there was Ignazio Silone's Bread and Wine, the story of an Italian Communist resistance fighter who returns to fascist Italy disguised as a priest. Nick's father was a well-known Pittsburgh doctor; mine a Chicago criminal lawyer. The personal poignance of Pietro Spina, the rich young man who gives his life to the poor, and foregoes comfort because of his faith--not in God, but in his people--was so close to our hopes (I hope not illusions) about ourselves...
...Free. A third Holabird prisoner, Herbert Kalmbach, had been called to Washington by the Watergate special prosecutor's staff for more questioning. He was in the office of his Washington lawyer, Charles McNelis, when his Watergate attorney, James H. O'Connor, telephoned. "Is Herb there?" O'Connor asked. "He's free. I got it straight from the judge's chambers." Kalmbach picked up the phone and heard the news. His eyes filled with tears...
...longest in the Physics Department and becoming less and less happy with her work as time went on. Schroder left Physics in October, after William M. Preston, director of the Physics labs, complained to the Personnel Department about the quality of her work. District 65 provided Schroder with a lawyer, and after a series of hearings and a month of paid suspension Personnel resolved the matter by relocating her with Layzer, one of Harvard's most liberal professors. "At first," she says, "I thought I had such a hard time because I was German, because I was foreign. But then...