Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patricia Roberts Harris smiled as she said: "When I'm around, you get two for the price of one-a woman and a Negro." She hesitated, then continued: "No, you get four-a woman, a Negro, a lawyer and a teacher." That was just after President Johnson had nominated her as the next U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg. Upon Senate confirmation, Mrs. Harris, 40, will become the first Negro woman to head an American embassy...
...candidate as Ailes's successor is Republican Stanley R. Resor, 47, a Manhattan lawyer (and son of J. Walter Thompson's late board chairman, Stanley Resor) who came to the Pentagon only last month as Army Under Secretary. Resor won the Silver and Bronze Stars as an artillery major in the Battle of the Bulge. He is a particular protégé of Ailes's predecessor, Cyrus Vance, now Deputy Secretary of Defense and McNamara's right-hand man. Resor and Vance roomed together at Yale Law School and have been close friends ever since...
...reportedly telling all about their jaunts to Europe and the Caribbean but denying any knowledge of Sam's gangland affairs. And she kept right on chattering to reporters saying that "my family is heartbroken," and indicating that Sam is still her man. At last Lawyer Edward Bennet Williams thrust her firmly into a cab with a crisp "Phyllis, for God's sake, let me do the talking...
...Dominican Republic and standing guard on numberless borders (Berlin, Korea, etc.), it would seem an odd time to argue that international law is replacing international force. But Charles S. Rhyne, former president of the American Bar Association, is just that optimistic. Proudly, he points to the "lawyer-to-lawyer" movement that he launched in 1963 with an Athens conference of 1,000 lawyers from 105 countries. Last year he opened the World Peace Through Law Center in Washington, D.C. Now he is planning the first "World Law Day"-as part of a September conference in Washington that will muster...
...Condor, and specifically Dancer Carol Doda, Lawyer Harry Wainwright pointed out that the U.S. Supreme Court last March, considering a censorship case involving the Danish film A Stranger Knocks, ruled that the acts of sexual intercourse semi-depicted on the screen were not necessarily obscene, and further insisted that the First Amendment applied to freedom of conduct and expression as well as speech. An "expert witness" duly testified that the performance, "applying contemporary standards of the average person," was not "of prurient interest." The judge agreed...