Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objector keep him from serving, the board ruled. Now training in Houston for his Feb. 6 bout with Ernie Terrell, the Greatest conscientiously objected, bawling: "We're gonna take this all the way up to the Supreme Court, man." It may not go that far, but as his lawyer filed yet another appeal, it began to be a question of which would overtake Ali first-the draft...
...cases of Drs. Samuel Sheppard and Carl Coppolino, Criminal Lawyer F. Lee Bailey sought to create so much doubt about the guilt of his clients that the juries could only find them innocent. In the case of Albert DeSalvo that ended last week in Boston, Bailey chose a completely opposite strategy. He set out to convince the jury that his client was the notorious Boston Strangler, and so guilty that he must be insane...
...presumably a misprint or a confusion between "the Gospels" and the old sources of the Gospels. (But the Resurrection narratives in the Gospels are commonly recognized as belonging to the very latest strata in them.) (3) As to the area of agreement of the panel of theologians with the lawyer-lecture's view of the "authenticity of Christ's resurrection": the distinction here between the Resurrection as historical fact and theological affirmation is confused. Assent to the Resurrection in the latter sense should not be taken to mean acceptance of the historicity of the Gospel accounts. In any case assessment...
Died. Grenville Clark, 84, Wall Street lawyer, Harvard benefactor (a member of the "Corporation" for 19 years), World Federalist and friend to two Presidents named Roosevelt, who did not let that stop him from organizing a national lawyers' committee to fight F.D.R.'s Supreme Court "packing" plan in 1937, later drafted the 1940 Selective Service Act, established the American Bar Association's civil rights committee, and wrote a voluminous treatise (World Peace Through World Law) calling for extensive revision of the United Nations charter, total disarmament and formation of a world development organization to promote peace...
Died. General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, 84, U.S. Marine, who became known as "the father of modern amphibious warfare" when he commanded the Fleet Marine Force in the Pacific during World War II; of a heart attack; in San Diego, Calif. A stocky, sulphurous, onetime Alabama lawyer, Smith personally led the bloody Marine assaults on Tarawa, Saipan and Iwo Jima, and dismissed criticism of heavy casualty rates (3,200 casualties at Tarawa alone) with "Gentlemen, it was our will...