Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some chemistry is going on here," exulted Richard Nixon before 450 cheer ing Republicans at a $25-a-plate dinner in Arlington last week. "Something new and exciting is happening in Virginia." At which Nixon turned to the principal chemist, A. (for Abner) Linwood Hoiton, 42, a Harvard-trained lawyer with Spencer Tracy (circa 1940) looks and Lyndonesque vitality...
That afternoon, an anti-Castro Havana lawyer put it somewhat differently: "I think the U.S. is letting us stew in our own juice for a while...
Fingering a 105-year-old rosary that "once belonged to my grandmother," the defendant wept while his lawyer summed up before U.S. District Judge Peirson Hall in Los Angeles. "Oh, thank you, your honor!" cried old Movie Mobster George Raft, 70, as the judge fined him a mere $2,500 on one count of filing a false income tax return but dismissed five other charges amounting to $50,000 in back taxes-and a possible $25,000 in fines and 15 years in prison. "I told you not to thank the judge," said Judge Hall. So George proceeded to thank...
Died. Colby Mitchell Chester, 88, president and then chairman of General Foods Corp., a Wall Street lawyer who took over the presidency of small Postum Cereal in 1924 and began an expansion program that resulted five years later in the merger of 15 food companies, continued to develop ever speedier convenience foods (Minute Rice, JellO, Birds Eye) until sales reached $260 million at his retirement in 1941, $1.5 billion last year; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn...
...Nigerians were acquitted of charges of trespassing and disturbing the peace in the Bick in 1964. While the discrimination suit which grew out of that incident was being prepared, Nwosu and Okuorounna moved several times. Their lawyer's letters never reached them, so the two did not know when their case was coming up. Nwosu, now a Boston University medical student was finally contacted in his Cambridge apartment yesterday...