Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excuse for polluting the waters of the commonwealth. Is the town doomed then? Not necessarily. "If Ramey can't get a bond issue underwritten, the state can do what it wants, but it is not going to get a sewer system in there," says Thomas M. Burke, a lawyer for the department of environmental resources. "We're just not going to be able to enforce our orders...
...have spent only $290,418 between July 1, 1973, and early January-all in public funds. Special Counsel James D. St. Clair ($42,500) heads a task force often attorneys working exclusively on Watergate. Named to the staff last week was John J. Chester ($40,000), a trial lawyer from Columbus, Ohio...
...down. Take, for example, the case of the novelist and short-story writer Louis Auchincloss. In part because he is widely read, he has been consistently snubbed by what is conveniently called the critical community. Auchincloss, 56, a graduate of Groton and Yale and a practicing Wall Street lawyer, writes mainly about the declines and cushioned falls of good-family New Yorkers. He is a lucid, confident and tidy observer of this small community; yet many critics (expecting, maybe, Henry James) refuse to accept Auchincloss as the teller of well-tailored stories that...
...women who are vivid and demonstrate by far the sharpest appetites. Beeky's wife, for example, is a ribald triple divorcee, an exploded sex bomb 15 years older than her husband. A menopausal female member of the firm demonstrates maternal ambitions by deviously trying to get a young lawyer to marry her daughter. Another woman solicitor, young and brilliant, undergoes great turmoil when she leaves Shepard, Putney, etc., where her husband is also a lawyer, in order to head for Washington and a dedicated life in public service practice...
Another key ingredient seems to be jurors' and judges' growing awareness of police perjury. Many officers "have become advocates in trials, convinced the end justifies the means," says former Los Angeles Prosecutor Johnnie Cochran, who is now a defense lawyer. The perjury pattern was noted judicially in 1965 by J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Court of Appeals. After his court had admitted as evidence a defendant's "spontaneous apology" for a misdeed, Wright discovered that more and more police began testifying about suspects who "spontaneously and voluntarily" apologized-in effect, confessed to crimes...