Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most startling move was permitting Dr. Mario Soares to return from exile. A lawyer and left-wing democrat, Soares was so persistent a foe of Dictator Salazar that he was jailed twelve times, mostly without trial or charges. His wife, Maria Barroso, one of Portugal's finest actresses, was dismissed from the national theater and could only perform with special government authorization. During his investigation of the mysterious 1965 murder of Humberto Delgado,* Soares publicly incriminated a member of the Portuguese secret police. Later, when Soares was unjustly suspected of feeding details to foreign newsmen about a teen...
...plays an upright, uptight Los Angeles lawyer named Harold Fine with a surfeit of standard comic woes: asthma, a meaningless job, a possessive fiancée, a Jewish mother. One sunny day a psychedelicate girl (Leigh Taylor-Young) bakes him a bunch of groovy brownies from an Alice B. Toklas Cook Book recipe that specifies a few pinches of hashish. Harold promptly blows his mind and his job, puts on a hippie face and runs off with the girl. But as his hair grows down to his shoulders his troubles run up to his ears. Mama kvetches on the phone...
...sent back to Congress by a slim margin in 1966. This time he made things tougher for himself by calling Democratic Senator Abe Ribicoff a "creep" for his Democratic convention attack on Chicago police enforcement. Irwin lost to Republican State Representative Lowell P. Weicker Jr., 37, a lawyer who managed to unify the district's liberal and conservative Republicans...
...case against Gerstein was shaky for more significant reasons. As one Miami lawyer explained: "Everybody knows that if you make restitution in a bad-check case your case will be dis missed on the first go-round. You wouldn't bribe anyone. It wouldn't be necessary." Moreover, the alleged ev idence against Gerstein also implicated three judges - all former members of Gerstein's staff. But at first neither Highsmith nor the Herald publicized the additional charges. Gerstein's ex planation was that they were so preposterous that the whole case - including the accusation against...
...higher legal authority at Fort Devens, the head of the judge advocate court, will automatically review the case, according to Kroll's lawyer, Norman S. Zalkind. "Considering precedents, there is a good possibility this review might lighten the sentence," Zalkind said...