Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third-party campaign has peaked and will soon start downhill. In company with leaders from both parties, the Republican nominee believes that when it comes to voting, most of the people who now say they are for Wallace will stay with the major parties. Wallace's pull, adds Lawyer Charles Rhyne, a top Nixon strategist, is "in the excitement he can stir up, not in the votes he can move...
Charles Ellsworth Goodell has always been a comer-and often a pusher. A Phi Beta Kappa at Williams College ('48), a Yale law grad and a onetime semipro baseball star, he became a trial lawyer back home in Jamestown, N.Y., and was voted to Congress as a Republican Representative in a 1959 special election...
...scourge of dangerous cars, diseased meat, dirty fish and innumerable other public nuisances, Washington Attorney Ralph Nader has become the self-appointed lawyer for U.S. consumers. This summer Nader, 34, took aim at Washington's official bastion of consumer protection, the Federal Trade Commission, and infected other youthful Americans with his muckraking zeal. Seven bright young Ivy Leaguers flanked him, five of them with legal training, badgering startled FTC officials with pointed questions that Nader believes Congress should ask but never...
Toothless Watchdog. When one of Nader's sleuths sought information that he believed should be public property, FTC Chairman Paul Rand Dixon angrily ejected him from his office. John Schulz, 29, a fledgling lawyer from Yale who is the patriarch of Nader's neophytes, had requested a copy of a monthly FTC memorandum detailing complaints made to the commission. Dixon told him that the document was for FTC use only. After slamming his door on Schulz, Dixon threatened to bar all of Nader's investigators from the building-an unenforceable fiat, since the FTC building is legally...
David Kreeger, a Harvard-educated corporation lawyer and top executive with the Government Employees Insurance Companies, constructed the building over the past four years to house the Kreegers' international collection of 150 paintings and 50 sculptures. Their architect was Philip Johnson, 62, who has designed half a dozen museums and an underground gallery for his own soupcan-to-nuts art collection in New Canaan, Conn. In fact, it was the Kreegers' plight as fellow collectors that made Johnson forswear his resolve never to design another house. "Too bad," said Kreeger when Johnson first turned them down...