Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favorite in a field of four, New York's Democrats nominated a feisty, folksy accountant, City Controller Abraham David Beame, 59. In the general election he will face the strongest Republican candidate for mayor in a generation: Manhattan Congressman' John Vliet Lindsay, 43, a Yale-educated lawyer with a liberal voting record and impressive support in a "silk stocking" Manhattan district in which registered Republicans are in the minority...
...Theodore Sorensen, who each earned $22,500 a year at the White House, expect to make $500,000 apiece on their memoirs of the Kennedy years. Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, who resigned last week, has been offered $250,000 for his J.F.K.-L.B.J. reminiscences-if he cares to write them. Lawyer Myer Feldman, who quit last March as counsel to the President, is making many times his $28,500 White House salary as a partner in a Washington law firm. And, of course, Feldman is writing his memoirs...
...conference was the brainchild of Charles S. Rhyne, past president of the American Bar Association, who started a "lawyer-to-lawyer" movement in 1963 with an Athens conference of 1,000 lawyers from 105 countries. Rhyne already has a thriving World Peace Through Law Center in Washington, which is scheduled to be moved next month to permanent headquarters in Geneva. By mobilizing 100,000 lawyers across the world in a campaign of research and publicity, Rhyne hopes to persuade politicians that international law is no myth, that the sheer necessities of global trade and travel are giving birth to hundreds...
...school took the lives of 92 pupils, injured 76 others, and left scores of parents with clear grounds for suing the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Chicago. Understandably, the parents were loath to go to court against their own hierarchy. But in 1959, on behalf of five injured children, Chicago Lawyer Burton Joseph filed a $1,750,000 damage suit charging that the archdiocese let the school become "a dangerous firetrap." After that, more and more plaintiffs upped the ante...
Last week Lawyer Joseph, 35, proudly announced that the offer is "likely to be accepted," noted that "this is the first time an effort has been made to settle disaster claims en masse by reviewing the damages and having the defendant put up an amount to cover them." As for raising the money, Archbishop Cody says the archdiocese has "a moral obligation" to borrow from banks rather than solicit Chicago parishes...