Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eighth time in the past 15 months, South Viet Nam underwent a major change in its government (see THE WORLD), and in the U.S. the chorus of discontent about policy grew louder. Some of the most outspoken opinion expressed so far came from New York Lawyer Richard Nixon...
...then Deputy Attorney General Byron White enlisted Katzenbach as a Justice Department lawyer in Washington, and when White went to the Supreme Court, Katzenbach succeeded him. Attorney General Kennedy used Katzenbach most notably as a troubleshooter. He headed the federal forces who fought a pitched battle trying to get Negro James Meredith admitted into the University of Mississippi. It was also Katzenbach who confronted Alabama's Governor George Wallace at the door of a University of Alabama building and, in a memorable scene, demanded that Wallace step aside to permit two Negro students to register. Wallace stepped aside...
...nation's 8,748 judges, only 300 are women. Though the first U.S. woman lawyer was licensed in 1869, the not undying male reaction was summed up by Wisconsin's Chief Justice in 1875, when he flatly rejected a woman applicant in his state: "It would be shocking to man's reverence for womanhood that women should be permitted to mix professionally in all the nastiness of the world which finds its way into courts of justice...
...Lorna Lockwood) now sitting on state Supreme Courts-North Carolina's Justice Susie Sharp and Hawaii's Justice Rhoda V. Lewis. Indeed, the opportunity for choice enlarges each year. Denver, for example, recently acquired its first woman judge of any kind-Zita Weinshienk, 31, a lawyer's bright young wife who got her own law degree at Harvard in 1958. Already a municipal judge, seasoned in traffic cases, she was upped to county judge last week...
Jehovah's Witness. Though Hurd was born in New Mexico, he has Eastern ties. His father was a Boston lawyer who settled in dry New Mexico for his health. Hurd attended West Point for two years, quit because art interested him more than mathematics. He recalls that his father-apparently ignorant of the aborted West Point career of James McNeill Whistler-responded by saying, "You are an utter jackass...