Word: sam
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...They seem to regard a tour of duty in Viet Nam as the most challenging, most demanding and most satisfying experience that anyone can find in the world today," says Sam Simpson, chief recruiter for the Agency for International Development's Far East bureau. Indeed, after a tour in Viet Nam, 64% of old AID hands ask to be sent back-a higher percentage of veterans who want to stay on than in any of the 77 other countries with AID missions...
...Lawyers. Precisely, agrees Judge George C. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, who last week called the A.B.A. proposals "the most dangerous threat to American ideals of free speech and press since the days of Joe McCarthy." Edwards, who once voted to reverse Dr. Sam Sheppard's murder conviction in an opinion that foreshadowed the recent Supreme Court decision in the Sheppard case, is mainly worried that pretrial controls will leave defense lawyers "muzzled" and "prosecutions corrupted against the public interest." The real pressure, says Edwards, should be on trial judges to "make full...
...backed Christopher in the primary, saying, "I know where he stands-which is more than I can say about Ronald Reagan." Nevertheless, Reagan won with 64% of the votes -and pulled 50,000 more than Governor Brown did in a much closer Democratic race against maverick Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty...
...chief, the general manager, two Astor men, three Thomson men, and-at the fulcrum-four "independent national figures" to be approved by both partners. Though Thomson will not be on the board, his son, Kenneth, 43, will be vice chairman. Said Thomson, who, like the U.S.'s Sam Newhouse, reads balance sheets much more avidly than editorial pages: "All my life, I have believed in the independence of editors, and the new editor in chief has been guaranteed absolute freedom from interference...
...reversing Dr. Sam Sheppard's murder conviction last spring, however, the Supreme Court suggested that the answer is for the bar and the police to button their own lips-thus silencing the key sources of prejudicial news without curbing freedom of the press. Last week a long-awaited set of specifics for carrying out that proposal was issued by the American Bar Association's ten-member advisory committee on fair trial and free press, a distinguished body of lawyers and judges headed by Justice Paul C. Reardon of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court...