Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fill six vacancies on the 50-man city council. Independent Democrats will challenge machine-backed candidates in five of the six races. They have reasonable hopes of winning two seats, with Fred Hubbard, 39, a black youth worker running in a largely Negro ward, and William Singer, 28, a lawyer who campaigned for Robert Kennedy and is running in a well-to-do Near North Side ward...
...stipulating that no-confidence motions could only come from a majority of members of the upper and lower houses. Such a negative vote would be unlikely, to say the least, since the upper house is entirely appointed by the regime. Said Opposition Leader Seni Pramoj, an articulate and outspoken lawyer who was Premier in 1945-46: "The constitution of 1968 almost achieves immortality for the Thai government...
Real Buff. Bowie Kuhn, a distant relative of the knife-wielding frontier hero, Jim Bowie, may be just the man to cut through the encrustations of baseball. At 6 ft. 5 in. and 230 lbs., he looks more like a retired tackle than a Wall Street lawyer whose chief passion is gardening. The great-great-grandson of Maryland Governor Robert Bowie, he was raised in Washington, D.C. As a boy he worked inside the Scoreboard at Griffith Stadium, then the home of the Senators, for $1 a day. He played no sports in high school or at Princeton...
...away before his trial. But a large number of those freed on bail (estimates in different studies vary from 8% to 45%) have become repeaters even before they come to trial. Some felons, say the authorities, rob a second time in order to pay a lawyer to defend them on the first charge. Others, believing that they will get concurrent sentences anyway (meaning that they can serve both sentences at the same time), figure that they have nothing to lose from another burglary...
...trips home to the 700-acre Pliny, W. Va., estate that was deeded to her family in the 18th century by George Washington. No one questions her familiarity with rules and regulations. A banker's daughter, she is the wife of a Charleston and Washington attorney and a lawyer herself. In West Virginia, she was the first woman to serve as assistant attorney general and later as state insurance commissioner...