Word: lawyering
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...being pensioned off from his job as an apartment-house superintendent, he switches to the night shift and ducks from the tenant committee. Hirsch portrays an incendiary old socialist, a meddlesome lover of confrontation politics and a compulsive impersonator of whoever might solve his problems, from a union lawyer to a Mafia don to "Dr. Friedrich Engles," a purported psychoanalyst. He too is hiding, from a daughter who wants to supervise his risky behavior. When at last she catches up with him, he deftly summarizes her alternative plans to take him in, place him in a nursing home or consign...
...Galbraith had filed a $1 million product-liability suit against R.J. Reynolds, contending that the company that marketed the Winstons and Camels he puffed so prodigiously fueled his addiction and thus killed him. But last week a jury in Santa Barbara, Calif., voted 9 to 3 that Galbraith's lawyer Melvin Belli had not proved that smoking necessarily caused Galbraith's death or that he was a tobacco addict. The panel of eleven nonsmokers and one smoker agreed with Reynolds' attorney Thomas Workman that Galbraith "smoked because he loved it. He knew the risks involved and took them...
...verdict was a major victory for Reynolds and for the tobacco industry as a whole, which currently faces more than 40 similar liability suits. Lawyer Belli plans an appeal, based on Judge Bruce Dodds' refusal to admit important evidence about the Surgeon General's reports on the hazards of smoking...
...that he was a Communist. The father, John, a Washington State Democratic representative, won vindication in a notable 1963 libel suit. But he had already lost his seat in the Washington legislature, and he retired permanently from public life. His son Charles grew up to be a prominent Seattle lawyer and, along with his wife Annie, a respected community activist. They enjoyed a happy family life and an untarnished reputation. They had every reason to believe that the old accusations were at last behind them...
...tried to choke off the opposition. It first closed down the popular Radio Soleil, run by the Roman Catholic Church, charging its management with broadcasting "alarmist" news reports. A general news blackout followed as other stations voluntarily abandoned public affairs programming. Police arrested Opposition Leader Hubert de Ronceray, a lawyer and sociologist, charging him with sedition after "subversive" documents were found in his home. Once a member of Duvalier's Cabinet, De Ronceray, 54, has persistently ridiculed last July's rigged national referendum, in which, the government contends, 99.98% of those who voted backed the Duvalier regime...