Word: lawyer
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...case of the only professor in the law school who insists on not being addressed by his first name, Thomas J. O'Toole '42, students are not reluctant to overstep rules of classroom decorum. One student describes O'Toole as a "Harvard professor type" and a "pretty straight lawyer." His formal style of instruction often clashes with the demands of students for more freedom. A few weeks ago, a group of women could no longer tolerate his invariable use of "he" to refer to the abstract parties of the contracts he was describing. When O'Toole said "he" in reference...
...lawyer who couldn't be bought...
...weighty allegations of press unfairness on its docket. Among them: charges by Graham Martin, U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, that New York Times Reporter David Shipler had inserted "numerous inaccuracies and half-truths" in a story about U.S. assistance to Saigon (TIME, March 25); a complaint by a New York lawyer that public television's Black Journal had been one-sided in supporting the construction of black housing in a white Newark neighborhood...
What the U.S. needed, Richard Nixon said again and again during his 1968 campaign, was "a new Attorney General." When Bond Lawyer John Mitchell moved into the Justice Department after the election, he went all out to make good on Nixon's implied promise that the country's top legal officer would know how to use wiretaps to fight organized crime. Last week that promise, like so many others from the law-and-order Nixon Administration, collapsed dramatically. The Supreme Court ruled that a sizable chunk of Mitchell's taps were improper and illegal. At one stroke...
Garrett, a Chicago securities lawyer who served on the SEC staff in the 1950s, quickly supported the elevation of Veteran Staffer Irving M. Pollack to a seat on the five-member commission (TIME, Feb. 11), a move that boosted morale by demonstrating respect for professionalism. Enforcement activities have picked up, as the recent filing of long-awaited fraud suits in the Penn Central case shows...