Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saturday, September 13 SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11:15p.m.). Gregory Peck in his Oscar-winning performance as the small-town Southern lawyer who defends a young black (Brock Peters) on a rape charge in To Kill a Mockingbird...
Slightly Surrealistic. Well, it helps to have been a Wall Street lawyer-in more ways than one. Consider the ledgerdemain of the San Clemente spread. The price for the estate of 21 acres, including the large, Spanish-style villa now known familiarly as White House West, was $1.4 million. The terms were $400,000 down and $100,000 per year, plus 7½% interest per year on the initial outstanding debt of $1,000,000. The sale called for the principal to be paid off within five years. Normally, such an undertaking would require prodigious amounts of cash: annual payments...
...stresses mobility and cautious avoidance of enemy units capable of hitting back. Yet in 1951 he narrowly escaped dismissal after a disastrous campaign against superior French forces, and against U.S. forces he has frequently accepted appalling casualties for little military gain. An old friend of Giap's, Saigon Lawyer Tran Van Tuyen, recalls him saying in the 1940s: "The Russian Revolution cost 2,000,000 lives, so we can certainly sacrifice half a million people." By all accounts, Giap is unskilled in Hanoi politics...
...that the mere naming of the new Cabinet will indicate whether the regime is pro-Nasserite, Marxist, or middle of the road. One rumor had it that the actual leader is a civilian, which could point toward Abdel Hamid Bakoush, an ex-Prime Minister and a bright, progressive, nationalist lawyer...
Like most other FCC chairmen, Burch, 41, is a lawyer. He is also one of the Republican Party's most loyal workers. A wryly humorous member of the "Arizona Mafia," he served as Barry Goldwater's administrative assistant and political aide until the Senator named him party chairman during the 1964 presidential campaign. Ousted from his post by the GOP's liberal elements in 1965. Burch endeared himself to Nixon by declaring that Nixon was "one of the few contenders who emerged with honor" from the 1964 Republican debacle...