Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Sears, Roebuck, having retained this scrofulous attorney and empowered him to act in its name, does not have the same responsibility for his actions as it would if a clerk shortchanged a customer? Or has it no responsibility there, either? If it is possible for a lawyer to act "ostensibly" for a corporation while in fact pursuing private and nefarious interests, then we have some loose bricks in our legal structure-most of which seem to have fallen on Mr. Jackson's head...
...depended on other Arab states to "drive the Israelis into the sea," the new men call for a purely "Palestine initiative"-the essence of which is to make an acceptable peace with Israel. "The Israelis have all along offered the Arab states peace," says Aziz Shihadeh, 50, a lawyer in the occupied town of Ramallah. "They have been offering it to the wrong people. We, the Palestinians, are the only ones who can negotiate...
Four-Time Winner. Bob Stanfield, 53, a lawyer by training, comes from a rich old Nova Scotia family that made its fortune in knitting mills; winter long Johns, one of its products, were known during the Yukon gold rush as "Stanfield's unshrinkables." An unassuming pragmatist, he took over Nova Scotia's Conservative leadership in 1947, when the party did not hold a single seat in the provincial legislature. Nine years later he came to power, and has since won three elections. When fellow party members suggested that he run for Diefenbaker's job, Stanfield at first...
...possible presidential candidates. But every time they met, explained Board Chairman Fairfax Cone, "all had the same candidate-Mr. Levi. He was our standard. No others matched that standard." A shy, unpretentious man who likes bow ties and fine cigars, Levi, 56, has employed a dry wit and a lawyer's tough logic in his pivotal task under Beadle: raiding other faculties of their top talent. An aristocratic intellectual who reads widely at jet-pace speed, Levi developed a rapport with academicians that neatly complemented Beadle's administrative and fund-raising skills...
...central question was whether it should be made easier for women to get legal and safely sterile abortions. Boston College's Jesuit Theologian-Lawyer Robert F. Drinan contended that even a therapeutic abortion under the model code recommended by the American Law Institute and recently adopted, in essence, by three states means taking a life. To ensure that no abortion should have legal sanction, Father Drinan suggested that the states should repeal all abortion laws...