Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maurer, 63, the lawyer son of a wealthy member of the prewar bourgeoisie, is suave, cultivated, and was enough of a linguist during World War II to spring Dej from prison: dressed in an officer's uniform and purring perfect German, he waved a handful of spurious orders and marched off with a detachment of prisoners, Dej and Ceausescu included...
Moralists may wonder why the U.S. press and public spent seven weeks following the affairs of burly Melvin Powers, 24, and his lissome, lippy aunt, Candace Mossler, 46, in intimate detail. Most lawyers, though, are morally certain that they know exactly why a Miami jury so easily acquitted Candy and Mel of killing her millionaire husband, Jacques Mossler, 69: the defendants had in their corner hulking, booming Houston Lawyer Percy Foreman, whose never-failing tactic is to act as if the murder victim, not the suspect, were on trial. By "trying" everyone except his clients, Foreman has lost a defendant...
...Percy Foreman, 64, is probably the biggest, brashest, brightest criminal lawyer in the U.S. The 250-lb. son of a onetime Texas sheriff, Foreman chose brains over brawn as a teen-ager when he landed a contract to load cotton at 25? a bale, then hired laborers to do the job at 8? a bale. At 16, Foreman quit the hamlet of Bold Springs to seek his fortune in Houston; he shined shoes, delivered papers, and hustled through the University of Texas law school. Of his clients, he likes to say mysteriously: "They may not always be right, but they...
Pusey explained that Bowles's dismissal for refusing to sign the Massachusetts Teachers' Loyalty Oath was made effective March 31, instead of the end of February, so that he would have time to sue for reinstatement. Bowles, an instructor in Economics, said yesterday that his lawyer, Gerald Berlin, had not yet filed suit but would do so in the next few days...
...been growing slowly in various parts of the country since March 1964, when Dr. Leo Koch, a biology teacher who in 1960 was fired by the University of Illinois for advocating premarital sex, and Jefferson Poland, a restless student who says he is studying to be "either a lawyer or an agitator," founded the New York City League for Sexual Freedom. Poland, who now attends Merritt Junior College in Oakland, took the offensive for nudism by wading naked into the ocean at San Francisco's Aquatic Park last August with two beefy members of the off-campus San Francisco...