Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin on Sept. 30. The appeal of one of the defendants, John Ehrlichman, for a longer delay was turned down by Chief Justice Warren Burger of the Supreme Court. At the moment, Nixon is scheduled to be a witness at that trial, since a subpoena from Ehrlichman's lawyers was finally served privately on Nixon at San Clemente by a U.S. marshal. What action Nixon will take, if any, to avoid that appearance undoubtedly will be one of the first duties of Nixon's new personal Watergate defense lawyer, Herbert John (Jack) Miller Jr. The Washington firm Miller...
...merely passing along to customers astronomical wholesale price increases on a wide variety of items; for example, an importer of bamboo magazine racks has recently doubled the price to $8. The prices are discouraging many potential buyers and Mrs. Edlund has fired her only salesgirl. Though her husband, a lawyer, "suggests every morning that I sell the store," she has no plans for throwing in the towel. "People say that if you leave your heart in San Francisco, you leave it on Union Street," she says wistfully. "Maybe they leave their hearts, but not cold cash...
Next door, in another Southwestern town, NBC's Petrocelli (Barry Newman) is a Harvard-trained lawyer whose big-city tactics are guaranteed to grate on his new neighbors. And working out of his Depression-era home farm in Idaho, CBS's The Manhunter (Ken Howard) will tear across the country in his 1929 Cadillac, hauling in would-be Bonnies, Clydes and Dillingers...
...eleventh name on the list says flatly that he is no longer a Christian at all: Sioux Indian Lawyer Vine Delorio. But the Indian activist "out of a Christian background ... offers North Americans a stirring call for society's repentance and reform." Whether or not he is a Christian in essence, that presumably qualifies him as a shaker...
...brought to Newport Gretel II, Australia's ill-fated challenger from 1970, to serve as Southern Cross's sparring partner, and a retinue of 41, including three of his own sailmakers. Should there be a protest during the race, Bond is ready with a rules expert and lawyer, plus a video-tape camera to record all races for replay. "Expert advocacy," says Bond, "is as much a part of racing now as a boat." All this may offend the guardians of the Cup, but Bond is not concerned. "To say this is a gentleman's sport...