Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handle the latest stage of his Watergate defense, Nixon hired yet another attorney: Republican James D. St. Clair, 53, a meticulous and highly respected trial lawyer from Boston. He will take over from J. Fred Buzhardt and Leonard Garment. Buzhardt was named to John W. Dean's old job of White House counsel, in which he will handle the President's routine legal work. Garment was appointed a presidential assistant in the areas of civil rights and the arts. For months, Nixon had been unhappy with his defense team's work; White House aides went...
...cells fought for Peron's return, but now that the old man is back in the saddle, they have refused to disband. Instead, they have taken to kidnaping businessmen as a means of financing their operations. And Peronists have increasingly turned on each other. A left-wing Peronist lawyer and his wife were recently murdered in Buenos Aires, presumably by rightists, and a member of the leftist Peronist Youth Movement charged that he had been abducted, beaten and burned with cigarettes. The suspects: right-wing Peronists...
...Sirica finally landed a job as a prosecutor on the staff of a Herbert Hoover-appointed U.S. Attorney in Washington. He developed a reputation as a fair but somewhat excitable courtroom lawyer. Aroused by the tactics of opposing counsel in one trial, Sirica impulsively shouted: "It ain't fair; it ain't fair!" In another case, he jumped up to protest to a judge: "Not a single objection of mine so far has been upheld by the court." When one defendant made a threatening move toward him, Boxer Sirica, ready for a fight, told a restraining lawyer...
...Sirica joined one of Washington's major conservative law firms, Hogan & Hartson, quickly becoming its best trial lawyer. "He was not an especially learned attorney," recalls one partner. "But he won a lot of cases he shouldn't have because of his sincere manner." In 1952, at the age of 47, Sirica, long accustomed to a livery bachelorhood, married Lucile Camalier, 28. His best man was a lifelong friend from his boxing days, Jack Dempsey. Lucy promptly offered some career-saving advice, urging him to turn down an offer by Joseph McCarthy to become majority counsel...
Surprise Publication. Plans for publication of Gulag were kept secret by the author's Swiss lawyer. Though ru mors about the work had circulated for several years, its existence was denied by everybody close to Solzhenitsyn. Thus the announcement of imminent publication by Harper & Row and four European publishers took the world by surprise last week - as did the serialization of excerpts by the New York Times...