Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidates of his race did as well in other Alabama runoffs. Negroes managed to win Democratic nominations for two lesser offices in Macon County and for a school-board post in predominantly Negro Greene County; otherwise, 22 Negro office-seekers were defeated, including Tuskegee Lawyer Fred Gray, 35, who had been favored to succeed in his bid for the state house of representatives. But although many whites continued to resist the inevitability of full-scale Negro political participation, there were heartening signs of reasonableness. Amid warnings of violence uttered by embittered Macon County whites, Sheriff Sadler took pains to call...
...British Government White Paper that probed the country's rising crimes of violence and pointed the way for a 1964 experiment: compensation for people who suffer physical injury at the hands of wrongdoers. Headed by Sir Ronald Long, former president of the English Law Society, a six-lawyer committee called the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board has invited any Briton to claim damages for anything from arson to assault to injuries incurred while helping the police or trying to make a citizen's arrest...
Died. James R. Newman, 58, lawyer-turned-author, who made math digestible to the unscientific mind with 15 well-received books including his 1956 World of Mathematics, a four-volume survey that sold 160,000 copies; of a heart attack; in Chevy Chase...
...first time in its history, a layman has become chief executive officer in the 3,300,000-member United Presbyterian Church. At the Presbyterians' 178th General Assembly in Boston last week, delegates elected Wichita Lawyer William Phelps Thompson, 47, as their new Stated Clerk over two other candidates, both ministers. Thompson, who for the past year has held the largely ceremonial office of moderator, succeeds the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, the new General Secretary of the World Council of Churches...
...York's outdoor summer concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, who for 44 years gave the city the low-cost privilege of enjoying the richest in music, including Rosa Ponselle, Marian Anderson, Artur Rubinstein and George Gershwin; after a long illness; in Manhattan. The wife of a wealthy lawyer, "Minnie," as concertgoers called her, knew little or nothing about music-except that she liked it and wanted everybody else to. She started promoting concerts as a lark in 1918, carried on for the rest of her life and grew famous, both for her ability to squeeze money from the flintiest skin...