Word: rifkind
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...core of public trust is the belief that judges are impartial. New York Lawyer Simon Rifkind, a former judge, notes: "Impartiality is an acquired taste, like olives. You have to be habituated to it." Some judges never lose the attitudes they brought to the bench; lawyers complain that judges who were prosecutors favor the state, and judges who were defense lawyers favor the defendant...
...tended to obscure the fact that the "diet-heart hypothesis," as the cholesterol link with coronary disease is known, remains a theory and the subject of heated debate. True, studies have established that high cholesterol levels in the blood are associated with increased heart disease. But, admits Dr. Basil Rifkind, chief of the lipid metabolism branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, "what's missing is the proof that you can prevent heart disease by reducing cholesterol...
DIED. John Franklin Wharton, 83, lawyer, author (Life Among the Playwrights) and inventive behind-the-scenes presence on Broadway; of emphysema; in Manhattan. As a member and founder of the prestigious law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, Wharton had a variety of businesses for clients. His longtime love of the theater and entrepreneurial genius made him an imaginative adviser and friend of producers, playwrights and songwriters. In 1938 he helped form the Playwrights Producing Co., which gave its member-writers (Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood and others) control over their own works through bypassing producers. More recently Wharton...
...team of attorneys preparing to fight the grand jury's investigation. The team is headed by Judah Best, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney who now practices in Washington. Assisting Best are Martin London and Jay Topkis, two lawyers from the New York firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison...
Only Routine? Both Nixon and Agnew appeared to have made unusual preparations for the encounter, their first since Aug. 7. Agnew made a flight to New York on Thursday to consult there with his lawyers, the prestigious firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and then flew back to Washington. As for Nixon, he was reported to have talked over the Agnew situation recently with a number of associates, including Herbert Brownell, who was President Eisenhower's Attorney General (Brownell later denied that the Vice President had been discussed), and John Connally, the former Treasury Secretary whom Nixon once...