Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preparation of its public relations staff than anything else. Every reporter was given the traditional press kit: there were nearly 30 pictures of M.I.T. buildings that might be damaged if the Inner Belt veered close to the Institute, in addition to long, detailed statements by Killian and an M.I.T. lawyer. The reporters had to do almost nothing--it was all there. and in many respects that was a shame, because M.I.T.'s case contained enough unanswered questions and apparent contradictions to keep a room full of reporters busy for hours...
Over and over during the press conference, Killian, who made the major presentation, emphasized how the research at M.I.T. was to the national space and defense effort. Later in the day, an M.I.T. lawyer characterized the Institute's importance in these terms...
...ruling not only rattled bankers but riled lawmakers, who saw their authority challenged. Congress moved to reframe the law, but unfortunately the task fell to the House banking committee, which is run as a fief by Chairman Wright Patman, 72. Patman, a moonfaced country lawyer from Patman's Switch (pop. 25), Texas, dislikes big banks, tight money and Federal Reserve Chairman William McC. Martin in about equal degree. Sympathetic to the Supreme Court, Patman stalled the revised bill for 25 weeks. When Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach wrote Patman that he favored a liberalized bank-merger law, Patman just...
...November 1964, the Government went into Chicago's Federal District Court and got indictments on 49 counts (later reduced to 42) against the foundation, Dr. Ivy, Dr. Durovic, his lawyer-financier brother Marko, and Dr. Phillips. The charges ranged from mail fraud and conspiracy to defraud the public to submitting false statements to Government agencies. Technically, the question of Krebiozen's efficacy as an anticancer drug was not at issue. But there was little doubt that the Government hoped that by convicting any or all of the defendants it could end the entire controversy...
...been president of the South's best university for ten years, has pipelines to resources of all of the region's leading schools. He heads an advisory committee on relations between AID and universities, and chairs the President's commission on White House Fellows. A lawyer, he has spent most of his career at Chapel Hill...