Word: panels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Argoud's terrorist career came to an abrupt end in February 1963 when he was kidnaped in a Munich hotel and deposited in a bloody bundle in the back of an abandoned panel truck in Paris. The French blandly disclaimed any participation in the snatch, and France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville asserted that Bonn had never made formal application for Argoud's extradition...
...weather was balmy and bright in Los Angeles, but a fog of gloom sometimes seemed to invade the Association of American Law Schools convention held there last week. Amid the many speeches and panel discussions, two somber questions recurred several times: Is the legal profession in the U.S. getting only barely passing grades in professional ethics? And is it flunking in social responsibilities...
Truth or Spectacle. One panel worried over the conduct of New York City lawyers, as revealed in a study by Lawyer-Sociologist Jerome E. Carlin. According to Carlin's findings, which are based on hundreds of interviews, more than 20% of the city's lawyers persistently breach canons of professional ethics. Most of the violators, Carlin reported, are lawyers practicing on their own or as members of small firms; in large law firms, standards of conduct run higher...
...another panel, University of Texas Law Professor Jerre S. Williams raised a point that has long troubled many attorneys: the dubious ethics of the all's-fair-in-war tactics used by many successful trial lawyers. Williams argued that it is unethical to have clients use makeup to present a better appearance for the jury, or for lawyers to horse-shed* witnesses before they testify. "Are we trying to get at the truth or put on a spectacle?" Williams asked...
Because girls often influence a boy's choice of an auto, Ford has set up an "airline hostess advisory panel," which is invited to Detroit to tour Ford's plants and styling studios and offer its opinions. Ford features pictures of the seven hostesses in its ads in such magazines as Seventeen to show that women have a word in Ford's looks...