Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, Italian Team Captain Carlo Alberto Perroux, a Federation Vice President, put in: "I am a criminal lawyer. I do not want 99% proof; I want 100%!" Bursting into tears, Britain's Swimer cried: "It's not 99% ! It's not 100% ! It's 110% ! I know they are guilty!" How, Swimer prudently refused to say. At least one other man had no doubts. Geoffrey Butler turned to Reese and said bluntly: "You have an inventive bridge mind. You invented the Little Major. Now you have invented the Little Heart...
...greatest thing since the Magna Carta," cheered a New Jersey defense lawyer. "A black-letter day for law enforcement," mourned a Philadelphia prosecutor. Tossing out two New Jersey murder confessions, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia had just ruled that even voluntary confessions are inadmissible whenever police fail to tell suspects that they have a right to counsel and to remain silent when questioned...
Implacable Foe. The architect of this pleasant package is a limelight-shunning lawyer named Stanley Sterling Surrey, who was drafted from a professorship at Harvard in 1961 by John Kennedy to become Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy. Surrey, 54, earns his $27,000 a year by putting in ten hours a day, six days a week at his paper-strewn desk, lugs a briefcase stuffed with documents to his Georgetown home most nights, rarely takes a vacation. Surrey has a grasp of taxation that has impressed Congressmen and Presidents alike, but he is such an articulate advocate...
Died. Horatius Albarda, 61, president of Royal Dutch Airlines, fourth among international carriers, an Amsterdam lawyer who took over the floundering, top-heavy company in 1963, cut losses from $21 million to $4,000,000 last year by pruning away 4,000 excess employees, restoring Far East service, eliminating old pistons and going for jets; of injuries sustained when the twin-engine Beechcraft in which he was a passenger crashed during a storm near St. Moritz, Switzerland, also killing his wife and the two pilots...
Amado reads his characters in depth. There is no facile division into good guys and bad guys, and everyone's motives are mixed. The lawyer, Virgilio, who helps Horacio outwit the Badarós, also seduces Horacio's pretty wife. And spade-bearded Sinhó Badaró, who has arranged the killing of many men, still agonizes over each decision-in fact, his soul searching destroys the efficiency of his best gunman, Negro Damião. As in U.S. westerns, the land is the real hero, breeding men as luxuriant, lavish and cruel as itself. Presumably spurred...