Word: lawyering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which until last month was recognized by the U.S. as the Republic of China. Under President Carter's agreement to normalize relations with Peking, the recognition of Taiwan must cease, and yet the U.S. was determined to work out some form of pseudodiplomatic relationship. The result was a lawyer's delight. As of March 1, what used to be the government of China becomes an entity officially designated as "the people on Taiwan"; the U.S. embassy in Taiwan becomes the American Institute, a nonprofit organization incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia; the Taiwanese embassy...
...suit, now being considered in New York State, brought by Etan Merrick against Producer David Merrick. They were married in 1969 and secretly divorced a month later, but then lived together until 1976. A New York court once denied her alimony for the years following her divorce, but her lawyer thinks that the precedent of the Marvin case may help her cause...
Marvin Mitchelson, 50, the high-octane divorce lawyer who is representing Michelle against Lee. Since Mitchelson and A. David Kagon, 58, Marvin's lawyer, agreed to try the case solely before a judge, there is no jury for Mitchelson to play to, which is a pity. With his I, Claudius haircut and natty suits, Mitchelson easily upstages the Hollywood star. The lawyer leans menacingly over the witness box, especially when the actor is pinioned on the stand, and then checks out the rows of newsmen as he stalks back to his chair. Although he is outshone by Mitchelson, Marvin...
BORN. To Joseph Alioto, 63, multimillionaire lawyer and former mayor of San Francisco, and Kathleen Sullivan Alioto...
...came to this sport to avoid commercialization," says Jonathan Baum, a Manhattan lawyer. "It was an unpleasant shock for me when I first skied on a groomed trail. I said, 'Hey, I'm not the first person to be here...