Word: lawyer
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Coming from political nowhere in 1970, the likable lawyer from the hills of Arkansas surprised everybody by defeating former Governor Orval Faubus in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. He then trounced the Republican incumbent, the late Winthrop Rockefeller. He easily won a second term in 1972 and then toppled the Senate's Foreign Relations Chairman J. William Fulbright in the primary last spring. He collected 85% of the vote last week against his outclassed G.O.P. opponent, John Harris Jones...
TENNESSEE'S RAY BLANTON, 44, a roughhewn, former Democratic Congressman in the populist tradition, found himself matched against one of the few attractive young Republicans to emerge in 1974: Lamar Alexander, 34, a lawyer who had helped Senator Howard Baker and retiring Governor Winfield Dunn win elections. Alexander's main problem turned out to be general dissatisfaction with Dunn's Republican administration, which had doubled the size of the budget to $2 billion and presented the state's eastern region with a prison instead of the medical school it had wanted. All this, plus a strong...
...lines that encompass Iowa State University in Ames. A former Navy pilot in Viet Nam, Harkin drew national attention in 1971 when, as an assistant to a House committee, he released photographs of the "tiger cage" treatment of political prisoners in South Viet Nam. Formerly a legal-aid lawyer, Harkin successfully employed an unusual campaign tactic by spending 27 days on 27 different jobs, ranging from welding to performing a housewife's home work, in order to acquaint himself with voters' concerns. Harkin urged tougher anti-inflation measures, tax reform and better care for the elderly. He readily...
Morgan, 36, thus became the fourth law-enforcement official in the Nixon Administration to be charged with a crime. As an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, he had supervised the policing of counterfeit, customs, firearms and alcohol laws. The former Arizona lawyer faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine...
...attorney in the University's general counsel office yesterday told the lawyer representing several Harvard students that the University has not and does not intend to destroy documents taken from students' files...