Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rainier could scarcely afford to buy Onassis out, and he shuns expropriation; as unbefitting the genteel nature of his establishment. Nonetheless, at the company's annual meeting last week, a Swiss lawyer known to be close to the palace launched an attack that suggested a Royal Solution. Onassis' control of such a large block of stock, argued the lawyer, is illegal under the company's charter, which limits individual shareholders to 10,000 apiece. Onassis nominally complies with this by holding most of his stock in the names of 48 Panamanian shipping companies, but Rainier...
...Liberty. After a jury ordered Holm back into the hospital last year, his young court-appointed Sheridan lawyer, James E. Birchby, appealed to the Wyoming Supreme Court on the grounds that the jury had been given hearsay evidence about Holm's mental condition. The law permitting this, he argued, denied the due process guaranteed by the 14th Amendment as well as the Wyoming constitution. Last month the court agreed and set Holm free. "It still remains the fundamental law of the land," said the court, "that a person cannot be deprived of his liberty-whether by involuntary hospitalization...
Also possessed of that swing is Trials of O'Brien, starring Peter Falk as a Manhattan criminal lawyer. A comedy successor to The Defenders, it is suffused with a breath of fresh (for TV) wit and literacy, and Falk steeps the role in a New York City boy's moxie and malarky. After winning a case, he shrugs: "You can't lose them all." Not in court anyway, though Falk blows enough on the ponies and at craps to stay hopelessly in arrears on his rent and alimony payments. All of which should make him an empathic...
Prodigy & Breakdown. Goethe's brilliance was evident early, and so were his problems. His mother, a gay young heiress with a wild gene of genius in her own disposition, strongly overstimulated the boy, and his father, a sober Frankfurt lawyer, gave little shape to his education. At seven, Goethe was proficient in six languages: German, English, French, Italian, Greek, Latin. At 16 he had a serious nervous breakdown. In desperation he began to write -"to say what I suffer." Saved by art, he romantically vowed "to convert my entire life into a work...
...Vera Cartwheel. She dithers madly and endlessly about her childhood, which was spent-in thin reality or thin dream-in a fantastic seaside mansion in New England. There she lived, or never lived at all, with an opium-soaked mother, two butlers, only one of them real, a spooky lawyer named Spitzer and a nursemaid named...