Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anatomy of a Murder (1959). A terrific film about an Army officer on trial for murder in a small town. Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, who humiliated Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the Army-McCarthy hearings, plays the judge...
...Cincinnati and suburban Hamilton County. The district is mostly white collar and prosperous; in 1972 it gave 70.3% of the vote to Republican William J. Keating, who resigned late last year. To succeed him, both parties nominated well-known and longtime city councilmen: Democrat Thomas Luken, 49, a lawyer and former Assistant U.S. Attorney; and Republican Willis Gradison Jr., 45, a wealthy stockbroker. Both had served as mayor-in Cincinnati, a post filled by vote of the city council-and neither had ever lost an election...
...small point in a large story, but an interesting one. And Graham could make it authoritatively on his own because he is an experienced lawyer as well as a journalist. He is typical of a growing band of attorney-reporters based in Washington. Until recently they were for the most part restricted to the Supreme Court and Justice Department beats. During the past year, Watergate has brought them to the fore, giving them both visibility and status...
...heavily Democratic Washington, D.C., where most future Watergate trials are likely to take place, former Presidential Appointments Secretary Dwight Chapin, who stands accused of perjury, has already blazed what will doubtless become a familiar path. In support of a requested change of venue, Chapin's lawyer put a black psychiatrist on the stand to testify that the city's 71% black population has "widespread feelings of hostility and rage" toward the Nixon Administration. Judge Gerhard Gesell dismissed Chapin's petition as "an affront to the jury system." Another criminal expert, Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan, takes...
...many artificial parts was lawyer Frank Tull. His teeth had been fashioned for him and fitted to his jaws by a doctor of dental surgery ...He had a silver plate in his skull to guard a hole from which a brain tumor had been removed. One of his legs was made of metal and fiber; it took the place of the flesh-and-blood leg his mother had given him in her womb ...In his left arm, a platinum wire took the place of the humerus . . . One hundred years after he died they opened up his coffin. All they found...