Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting went on, one man among the Christians worked for peace. Lawyer Raymond Edde, 45, the son of a former Lebanese President, headed what he called a Third Force movement (known to U.S. newsmen, in its ineffective days, as the "Third Farce"). One of Lebanon's most able and respected politicians, Edde ran unsuccessfully for the presidency against General Chehab. When trouble started again, he proposed a "save the nation" Cabinet of four leaders of the embattled factions. To offset Karami's Nasserism, he proposed as deputy premier a fellow Maronite Roman Catholic who wants no part...
Morocco, which joined the league when Tunisia did, refused to go along with Bourguiba's attack. Said one Moroccan lawyer, however: "Bourguiba is terribly awkward, but he said what most of us believe. The Egyptians take millions from the Communists and have the nerve to call us lackeys for accepting a penny from America...
...lawyer for the Klemm twins--the two South Boston figure skaters who were hospitalized after a Leverett House brawl in April, 1957--has obtained access to the girls' commitment papers, which were under a court impounding order, and stated that they "have been done a grave injustice...
Donald T. Field '31, the lawyer, has been examining the papers this week. Field emphasized that he has no intention of bringing suit unless he finds "incontrovertible" evidence that the Klemm girls were committed illegally, and that a thorough investigation of the case is planned...
Michael Parish may be weak and a little foolish, a man fixed by his background and fleeced by his women. But Lawyer-Novelist Auchincloss (The Great World and Timothy Colt, Sybil) pleads his case effectively. He also secures his own expanding niche in American letters, where he suavely dissects the outwardly successful failures and where, in the Fitzgerald tradition, the rich boy never gets off Scott free...