Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans, the law's personification is a landlord brandishing an eviction notice, a creditor repossessing furniture, a social worker cutting off welfare payments. Nonetheless, argues Anti-Poverty Czar Sargent Shriver, the law can and should be made to protect the poor. To this end, Shriver, a Yale-educated lawyer, has been zealously promoting a pioneering program to expand legal aid to the needy...
Most intriguing of all the new programs is a $240,181 grant to the Wisconsin State Bar Association to set up a kind of "judicare" system, under which the poor will use credit cards for legal services. Cardholders will be allowed to use the lawyer of their choice, and their fees, at least 25% less than the regular minimum scale, will be paid out of a central fund. "In effect,'7 says Shriver, "the entire bar is taking a salary cut on behalf of the poor...
...happen to like LIFE Magazine," said former Vice President Richard Nixon. "The fact that they're the most popular picture magazine in the country must prove that they're doing something right." Then, making his first appearance before the U.S. Supreme Court, Manhattan Lawyer Nixon spent the next hour politely attacking LIFE for invasion of privacy in a case that may produce one of the Supreme Court's major 1966 decisions...
During last week's oral arguments, Lawyer Nixon readily agreed that LIFE has a reputation for checking its facts carefully. In this case, though, he charged the magazine with "reckless disregard for the plaintiff's rights" and "fictionalization for the purpose of profit." Time Inc. Lawyer Harold Medina Jr. pointed out the many similarities between the Hill incident and the Hilliard play, and argued: "This is a nondefamatory article. We said the family were heroes." Just how the court resolves this conflict between privacy and free expression may have important constitutional consequences...
Allard K. Lowenstein, a New York lawyer, and the Rev. Jack Mendelsohn, pastor of the Arlington St. Unitarian Church, will speak on "Santo Domingo Today" at 8 p.m. Sunday in Emerson...