Word: petersons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grant was hindered by the absence of her co-skipper Toby Kellogg, who was ill. Ann Peterson crewed for Grant on Saturday and Kathy Angell on Sunday...
...Chase N. Peterson '52, dean of Admissions and Financial Aid and a member of the HSA board, said there was "a fair amount of friction" last year between Burke and Lockwood and the other seniors...
Right-On Lawyer. As it turned out, Peterson was no routine defendant. He knew that the Uniform Code of Military Justice guarantees a right to civilian counsel. Furthermore, his relatives got help from a new private organization: the Lawyers Military Defense Committee, which is sponsored by such legal notables as former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. The committee was about to open a Saigon office to provide free civilian counsel for U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam, and Peterson was a natural first client...
William Homans Jr. was sent to Viet Nam two months ago to defend Pfc. Peterson. In Boston, Homans is known as a "right-on lawyer"-he defends blacks, war protesters and poor people. But in Viet Nam, the huge, jocular attorney was too wise to come on as an overweight William Kunstler. He made sure that all the military people knew he was a World War II Navy veteran; he affected a when-in-Rome costume of field boots and green fatigues with his name sewed on the shirt pocket. And he did not advertise that he had defended Michael...
Homans' defense-aided by Peterson's Army lawyer, Captain Royce Lamberth-was exactly what his client hoped for, and the L.M.D.C. expected. Respectful but never inhibited in court, Homans put the prosecution witnesses through an uncompromising interrogation. Their stories became confused, and Peterson was acquitted of all charges...