Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past, Chicago police treated Speck with a solicitude extended to no other prisoner in their memory. Bowing to the U.S. Supreme Court's dictum-handed down in the historic Escobedo case, which involved the Chicago cops themselves-that a suspect may not be questioned without a lawyer's advice, police let more than a week elapse without attempting to interrogate Speck. Such new-found deference evoked caustic comment from several sources, among them Author Truman Capote, whose bestseller In Cold Blood is an exhaustive anatomy of the two men convicted of murdering the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas...
...University Professor, Reischauer will not be tied to any department, and will be free to teach and do research anywhere in the University. The Board of Overseers voted this Spring to offer him the position. The six other University professors are Paul A. Freund, constitutional lawyer; Paul H. Buck, former provost and American historian; Edward M. Purcell, Nobel laureate in physics; Edward S. Mason, economist; John F. Enders, Nobel laureate in medicine and physiology; and Merle Fainsod, an authority on Russian government and Director of the University Library...
...jets by then necessary to stay alive. TWA went into the red by no less than $38.7 million in 1961. Yet that same year, two happy things happened. First, the capricious hand of Billionaire Howard Hughes was lifted from corporate controls. Second, Charles Carpenter Tillinghast Jr., a Vermont-born lawyer, became TWA's president and chief executive officer. Under Tillinghast's regime, TWA took the U.S. airlines' profit leadership from Pan Am-$50.1 million to $47.2 million last year. In February, TWA paid its first cash dividend (250) in 30 years...
Nielsen's chief trial lawyer, George McBurney, conceded that his evidence so far is only circumstantial. "But you've got to admit," he added, "that it's pretty good. And this is just the start...
Bolt's answer, as I find it in his text and the reading of it by the Summer School Repertory Theater, is two-fold. First, More believes, almost to the last, that his lawyerly skill will preserve his neck. We find him replying to Roper's fears of an adversary. "He's not the Devil, son Roper, he's a lawyer! And my case is watertight!" Faced with the possibility of a test oath. More, good lawyer that he is, wants to see the statute--"But what is the wording?...It will mean what the words...