Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Three lawyers, including Clark, argued before Federal Judge Elbert Tuttle that the court-appointed lawyers who defended Spenkelink at his trial were ineffective. In Washington, Lawyer Joel Berger went from Justice to Justice. Finally, Thurgood Marshall ordered that the execution be stayed. Almost simultaneously, Judge Tuttle...
...Jean Talon, an upper-middle-class area of Quebec City, Louise Beaudoin, a regional president of the Parti Quebecois, was trounced by an obscure Liberal lawyer, Jean-Claude Rivest. At the same time, Claude Ryan, the new leader of the provincial Liberal Party, won a 2-to-l victory in rural Argenteuil. A former editor of Montreal's influential daily Le Devoir, Ryan, 54, is not only a fresh political face but a debater whose verbal agility is a match for Levesque's. Last week Ryan called on Clark to support a constitutional change that would guarantee French...
...seat and, shortly afterward, his future wife when 20-year-old Maureen McTeer volunteered to work for him. The couple married in 1973 and have a two-year-old daughter. Maureen, who continues to use her maiden name and is pursuing her own career as a lawyer, campaigned vigorously for her husband during the past election...
...between the workers and NIOC Chief Nazih. They had originally cheered him because he was the Ayatullah Khomeini's man, but now they view him with suspicion as they try to balance then" demands with the need to keep the industry going fairly smoothly and economically. Nazih, a lawyer, is in over his head trying to direct a complex oil industry, and his superiors know it. He may well be ousted soon...
Richest of the Republican presidential candidates reporting last week (Ronald Reagan and Phil Crane did not file) was Lawyer John Connally. His 1978 income was $1.3 million. Nor were any of the other G.O.P. hopefuls in bad financial shape. George Bush said he earned $354,751 last year, much of it from speeches; Howard Baker made $397,000, including his $86,666 Senate salary. Robert Dole earned...