Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chastened by the outcry, Perk last week relented and added four laymen to the commission; but the clergymen remain in the majority. A smart investigator, after all, need not be a prosecutor or a lawyer. Indeed, a corrupt cop might just be more willing to confess to clergymen, if only because they can keep secrets...
...book. Which, in fact, it does in Watergate, The View From The Left, a book written by the plaintiffs in the SWP suit and published by Pathfinder Press. Of course, this is a time for action as well as for reading. The SWP has obtained the services of Lawyer Leonard Boudin, who won acquittals for Daniel Ellsberg and for Eqbal Ahmad of the Harrisburg 7. Though Mr. Boudin is not charging for his services, his staff must be paid. The $27 million sued for is a large amount, but it will be a long time before even a drop...
Though these policies might sound reasonable, they infuriate Lee White, 50, a balding, wiry Washington, D.C., lawyer who was chairman of the Federal Power Commission from 1966 to 1969. "As prices go up, the little guy is going to get gouged," says White. "Is that the way to solve the energy crisis-to tell the little guy that he can't drive any more? I believe the Government has an obligation to protect...
...Angeles' most fashionable nightclub, the Troubadour, for ribald heckling of the Smothers Brothers. On the way out with his secretary May Pang, Lennon threw a right at Freelance Photographer Brenda Mary Perkins, who filed a complaint with the police. Lennon is uncharacteristically mum on the subject. Taking his lawyer's advice, he said: "No comment...
Encouraged by her mother, who, she says, never let her be treated as a blind person, Sloate originally set out to be a lawyer. After graduating from Barnard College in 1966 with a major in medieval history, she enrolled in Columbia University Law School but dropped out because she concluded that prospects for a blind woman lawyer were almost impossible. She got into the securities business by answering an ad from a go-go mutual fund that wanted analyst trainees without experience. As a girl, she had played basketball by positioning her feet on a crack in the court...