Word: lawyer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This hand," bespectacled George Day, 53, is saying Saturday morning as he gestures at a half-closed fist, the right one, attached to a misshapen forearm. Day, now a wealthy Florida lawyer, was an Air Force major, a downed Phantom pilot. In 1967 a crowd of Vietnamese villagers watched as a rope was tied around his elbows and tightened with a foot jammed into his back. A ferret-faced man the P.O.W.s nicknamed "the Rodent," seized Day's right arm and twisted until the cracked bones broke through the flesh. The bone, gaping from Day's arm like...
...Curiouser and curiouser," Alice might have said. In Chicago last week, a black federal judge, heeding the arguments of a Jewish lawyer, ruled that American Nazi Frank Collin and a handful of brown-shirted followers could hold a rally in Chicago's Marquette Park...
...January the corn fructose makers sued the Agriculture Department, charging that the agency had violated Congress's intent by not moving fast enough on the 1977 law. The plaintiffs then began a search of Government files for incriminating evidence. The lawyers asked for 20 documents that the Agriculture and Justice departments insisted on having reviewed by White House officials to determine whether they should be withheld on grounds of Executive privilege. They included presidential memorandums and minutes of Cabinet meetings. Since March the corn growers' lawyers have been asking about the status of the documents. Last week they...
After marriage in 1949, to Fred Schlafly, a wealthy corporation lawyer, she became increasingly involved in right-wing Republican politics. In addition to writing the bestselling book A Choice Not an Echo for Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign, she started her own national newsletter, the Phyllis Schlafly Report. She was a delegate to three G.O.P. conventions and served as president of the Illinois Federation of Republican Women. When she ran for the presidency of the National Federation of Republican Women in 1967, she lost in a bitter campaign against a more moderate candidate. Schlafly's own next...
Christine says that Ken's mother once demanded that she convert to Judaism and, when rebuffed, said she would do anything to stop the wedding. The father's defense lawyer, however, says the Levitts opposed the wedding not because Christine was a Gentile Evangelical but because their son was unstable. Weeks before the original wedding date, a man who said he was with the Jewish Defense League called the pastor who planned to marry the pair and warned...