Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some legal experts are beginning to criticize the bondsmen's role. "These powers would be abusable enough in the hands of proper and responsible police authorities," says Washington Lawyer Ronald Goldfarb, author of Ransom, a new study of bail problems. "The same powers in the hands of bondsmen are shocking and frightening." Bondsmen argue that they need their special privileges in order to prevent wholesale bond jumping and to keep their fees within the grasp of the average prisoner.* But in view of the present Supreme Court's concern for the rights of accused, the whole subject...
...Professor of the Social Sciences, is an unusual man. He is a scholar who strongly prefers teaching undergraduates, a best-selling author who has enlarged the American vocabulary with such words as inner-and other-directed, a professor who first set out to be a biochemist and then a lawyer. Since returning to Harvard to teach in 1958, he has also earned a reputation as an imaginative innovator...
...telephone interview last night from his home in Millbrook, N.Y., Leary said he was unsure whether he would be indicted before a Texas grand jury and was awaiting word from his lawyer...
Died. Andrew Wells Robertson, 85, chairman and chief executive of Westinghouse Electric Corp. from 1929 to 1945, a Pittsburgh lawyer who guided the firm through the Depression into the spectacular growth years of World War II, tripling its sales with new consumer appliances (dishwashers, electric ranges), the first industrial atom smasher (the 1937 Van de Graaff generator) and a vast array of defense equipment; of a stroke; in Pittsburgh...
Once it had, Niarchos swung into action, and with characteristic style. Charlotte and Niarchos' lawyer flew from New York to Juarez on a Ford company plane. Niarchos himself flew from Canada on another. The wedding party was installed in a spanking new Juarez motel, and a judge came to marry the happy couple in their motel suite. Another Ford plane took them to Nassau in the Bahamas. Waiting there was a Boeing 707 that Niarchos had chartered from BOAC to take them to Zurich (price: roughly $40,000). From there, they boarded his own Lear jet for the last...