Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When aerial hijackers delivered Moise Tshombe to an Algerian jail this month, his wife turned to one of the few men who might have saved her husband from extradition to the Congo-and almost certain death. Parisian Lawyer René Edmond Floriot, 64, faced appalling odds: the Congolese had already convicted Tshombe of not only treason but also murder and robbery. With eloquence, Floriot contended that the Congolese had actually amnestied Tshombe last fall. But last week he lost...
...most spectacular murder trial (1960), Floriot defended Swiss Lawyer-Politician Pierre Jaccoud, onetime dean of the Geneva bar. Police had the murder weapon; witnesses insisted that Jaccoud had shot and stabbed the father of a man who had stolen his mistress. But Floriot harried the witnesses into damaging concessions about the murder weapon, wrung lurid testimony from the mistress. He airily dismissed Jaccoud's lack of alibi: "Only criminals have alibis. Intelligent people never remember how they spend their evenings." Jaccoud got seven years...
Albert Pratt '33, a lawyer from Chest-nut Hill, has been elected 1967-68 Chairman of the Harvard College Fund, the annual giving program for alumni, parents, friends of the College...
...driver for the past five years, paying a daily fee of $16.50 to use a "rent-a-cab." From that investment he can expect $100 a week-in a good week-as personal profit. He is unmarried ("I'm all alone in this jungle," Smith told his lawyer, Oliver Lofton, a former aide to Under Secretary of State Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach). He rents a one-room apartment in Newark's "Ironbound" district (so named for its wrap-around railroad lines), has a collection of 25 "cool" jazz records, and is saving for a plate to replace his missing...
After seven years as president of Howard University, James M. Nabrit Jr. stepped out at a time of unprecedented strife on the nation's largest Negro campus (enrollment: 11,000, about 12% white). Though Nabrit a generation ago was a pioneering court room lawyer in the civil rights movement, he found himself branded a reactionary last spring when a spree of black-power incidents struck his campus. Militant pacifists booed Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey off a stage, burned Nabrit and Hershey in effigy, boycotted classes...