Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...however, McNamara is having his troubles with Congress-mostly in the person of L. (for Lucius) Mendel Rivers, 59, new chairman of the Armed Services Committee, a tall, militarily erect (although he has no service record) lawyer from Gumville, S.C., who now lives in Charleston. Rivers admires McNamara's ability, but he has long been irritated at the way the Secretary favored Vinson with inside information, often leaving the other 37 committee members in the dark. The new chairman's view came through clearly at a recent McNamara briefing. Riled by McNamara's patronizing attitude, he said...
When the votes were tallied, even the hopeful Republicans were surprised. They elected a city councilman in Columbus, a total of seven aldermen in four other towns. More important, they elected two mayors-the first ever in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg, Lawyer Paul Grady, 41, who lost a runoff election for mayor as a Democrat in 1961, decided he'd rather switch before fighting again, did much better as a Republican. Though Hattiesburg is the Governor's home town, Grady defeated Democratic Incumbent Claude Pittman Jr. 2,429 to 1,827. In Columbus, another Democrat-turned-Republican, City Councilman...
...girls also submitted, amiably enough, to an exercise of maternity that was rather on the strenuous side. "Mother is a bottomless pit," says Patsy, now Mrs. Richard Blake, wife of a lawyer practicing in Los Angeles. "She will kill you with love. As I was growing up, I didn't want to be understood. My biggest problem was knowing when and how to confide in Mother...
Happily, some U.S. lawyers have never been afraid to defend unpopular people or unpopular causes-even if their efforts cost them dearly in money and community standing. In Birmingham, for example, Lawyer Paul Johnston last week began to pay the price of voluntarily representing FBI Informer Gary Rowe (by indirect request of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach) in a lawsuit filed by Ku Klux Klan Lawyer Matt Murphy Jr. "It's not too popular to be involved in such matters around here," said one lawyer. Johnston was voted out of his eminent law firm by his prosperous partners-including...
...Principle. The confession problem stems from the court's own decision last June in Escobedo v. Illinois, which voided a Chicago murder confession because the police had refused to let the suspect see his lawyer. Escobedo seemed to establish a new principle: that a grilled suspect has a constitutional right to see his lawyer-and by inference, to be told he has a right to silence. But did the court's ruling mean that police must now advise all suspects of their rights to counsel and silence (a standard FBI rule), lest all voluntary confessions be automatically tossed...