Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After months of waiting for the Army's decision, Smith finally got an A.C.L.U. lawyer who threatens to take the case to federal court unless Smith is honorably discharged. The Army considers those 18 months to be "bad time" and has put Smith on short pay-$20 since June to recoup the allotments his wife received during his absence. Glenda Fay Smith meanwhile is still receiving her allotments. A runner at Sixth Army headquarters, Smith has recently been given a battery of physical and mental tests. Though the Army is mum about the results, one officer cracked that Smith...
...performances with afternoon soap operas. So does Artur Rubinstein, who on request can unravel the complicated plots of a half dozen of the soapers. ("Those organs!" says Rubinstein, holding his nose and unmistakably imitating their quavering tone.) William Buckley says that he finds no time for TV, but Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow, the former Federal Communications Commission chairman who described TV as a "vast wasteland," still watches fairly regularly. Among his favorites: Get Smart...
Black & White. Appointed to the federal judgeship for northern Mississippi by President Eisenhower in 1958, Lawyer Clayton, a Democrat who supported Ike, had never shown any signs of dissatisfaction with the Southern way of life. Quite the opposite. "I lived in the era when Plessy v. Ferguson, separate but equal, was the law of the land," he says now. I had no quarrel with it." Indeed, he had so little quarrel with Mississippi ways that he rose to command one of the state's National Guard divisions (which was totally segregated), ranked as a major general when...
...ordinance restricting Negro marches and demonstrations; he voided, as a member of a three-judge panel, application of the state's poll tax in state and local elections. "When you are able to show him a set of outrageous facts, then he loses his innate conservatism," says Lawyer Al Bronstein of the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee...
...realist," Clayton explains, "I've recognized my responsibility to adapt to changing times." He is still fundamentally conservative. "We knew he would protect clearly defined Constitutional rights," says an N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund lawyer, "but we also knew he wouldn't make law." Clayton agrees, adding that "case law must come, if it comes at all, at the appeals level." He is now moving to that level...