Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moving through the crowd, the white-haired, chunky, effervescent lawyer works as hard as a campaign politician. A crunching squeeze of the arm for one man, a glad-handshake for the next, hugs for all the wives. Then, with his back-country Florida drawl, he exhorts his fellow attorneys-this time about the need to weed out incompetent practitioners perhaps, even by requiring periodic retesting of lawyers. It is all said with an ingratiating charm and leavened with warming phrases about law as the "major bulwark between man and his government." At the finish, there is a loud ovation...
...this year. Heath tried to inspire the electorate with speeches reminiscent of Churchill's inflated World War II rhetoric, but only with the barest success. The coal miners's strike now threatens England with a depression unparalleled in the last 40 years, and that's a fact that no politician's over-blown speeches can obscure...
...Governor immediately professed that he knew nothing about the incident. In terms unfortunately reminiscent of those used by another politician under fire, he claimed that he had been too busy running the state to bother with such trivial matters as raising campaign funds...
Died. Murray M. Chotiner, 64, longtime adviser to Richard Nixon; of a blood clot resulting from an auto accident; in Washington, B.C. Alternately good-natured and blunt, Chotiner was a sharp Los Angeles criminal lawyer and a cunning, bare-knuckled politician who first met Nixon during the 1946 congressional campaign and advised him to depict his opponent, Jerry Voorhis, as an ally of Communism. Chotiner planned a similar strategy for Nixon's 1950 Senate race against Helen Gahagan Douglas. Chotiner advised Nixon at the time of his famous "Checkers" speech in 1952, but their relationship was temporarily dissolved...
Mayor Sullivan, who plans to run for Middlesex county sheriff, termed his new post "a definite asset" for the race. "Vellucci and Danehy are still my close friends," he said. "But they must realize I act as an independent politician...