Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of TV law seen on Perry Mason and The Defenders. They rarely touch criminal cases, personal-injury suits or domestic relations. Most of their work is done outside the courtroom, and some senior partners have never argued a case before a judge and jury-a testament to Elihu Root's dictum that "a lawyer's business is to keep his clients out of litigation...
Wanting in Elegance. Nobody knows the root cause of ulcers in the digestive tract, but what happens after the process gets started is fairly clear. Countless cells in the wall of the stomach secrete chemicals, such as gastrin, and hydrochloric acid. These are designed by nature for the digestion of food. But if for any reason-physical or emotional -the stomach cells churn out digestive juices when there is no food for them to work on, they may start digesting a spot on the wall of the stomach itself. The result is a gastric ulcer. More often, the corrosive juices...
...find his new job a man killer. To succeed, time, money and genius are needed-and none of them are plentiful. Through Fidel Castro, the Communists are actively pushing violent revolution designed to grab half a dozen Latin American nations before Western-style democracy, fed by development, can take root. It is increasingly obvious that a policy of coexisting with Castro, while merely hoping that the governments he threatens will be strong enough to resist, hurts rather than helps. Thus, U.S. policy toward Cuba is a major part of the re-evaluation study that President Johnson has ordered...
There are some individuals who pursue only unattainable girls, worship the New York Mets, and root for the Indians to clobber the cowboys; upon such a masochistic foundation was built the personality of the fan who rooted for the basketball team and blithely ignored the myriad of successful Harvard winter sports teams...
...economic counsel in the past has come from fairly conservative businessmen and advisers. Among them: Robert Anderson, a Texan who was Dwight Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary and is now a limited partner of Wall Street's Loeb, Rhoades; George Brown, president of Houston's Brown & Root, one of the world's largest building contractors; and Manhattan's Edwin Weisl, a wealthy corporate lawyer and Johnson's campaign co-manager in his 1960 bid for the presidency. Such men will doubtless have their say, but so will Walter Heller, whose personal memos kept Johnson informed...