Word: lawyering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DAVID ROCKEFELLER, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank: John McCloy [lawyer and banker] and Henry Kissinger for their leadership in world affairs; Andrew Wyeth for his leadership in bringing the arts to a wider public; Rockefeller University President and Nobel Winner Joshua Lederberg for his leadership in the scientific community; General Electric's Reginald Jones for his business leadership; and Patrick Haggerty [general director of Texas Instruments] for his business leadership and his role in helping maintain America's technological leadership...
...race for state attorney general; Andrew Pickens Miller, Virginia's attorney general, lost a race for Senator. Vermont Governor Thomas Salmon, who ably fought the land developers in his small state ("Vermont is not for sale"), lost a Senate race to Republican Robert Stafford and is now a lawyer in Bellows Falls (pop. 5,263) and a lobbyist in the state legislature. Wendell Anderson made the mistake of resigning his Minnesota governorship so that his successor could appoint him to a U.S. Senate seat. At the next election the voters disappointed him. Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker tried but failed...
Others simply wearied of the Washington struggle. Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who also attracted national attention because of her impressive performance during Watergate, is now on the lecture circuit. James Abourezk chose not to run for re-election as a South Dakota Senator and is a lawyer who represents, among other clients, the new government of Iran. Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III will retire next year; he talks vaguely of campaigning for the presidency as an independent, hoping to sweep away the "minutiae" that hog-tie Washington...
...indulged in anti-American rhetoric, the junta proved flexible enough to allay most of Washington's fears. The junta appointed a 15-member Cabinet dominated by moderates, which satisfied American insistence that the new regime should represent all shades of Nicaraguan political opinion. Among its members are Corporate Lawyer Joachin Cuadra Chamorro, Carlos Tünnermann Bernheim, who was rector of the National University, and Cesar Amador Khull, a former officer of the Inter-American Development Bank. There are only two hard-core radicals: a Sandinista commander, Tomás Borge Martinez, who was appointed Interior Minister...
Elsa and Lili were born in the 1890s, the daughters of a well-to-do Jewish lawyer in Moscow. Before the Revolution, Mayakovsky had courted Elsa, flouting her family's objections to the scruffy, hulking poet who had served a prison term at 16 for Bolshevik subversion. But when Elsa, who was quite plain, introduced him to her handsome married sister in 1915, Mayakovsky formed a passionate attachment to Lili that only his suicide in 1930 could terminate. After his death, these redoubtable sisters were to play key roles in the production of the Mayakovsky legend. Settling in France...