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...assist them, the Commission members named as their chief counsel James Lee Rankin, 57, a top Manhattan attorney who had been President Eisenhower's Solicitor General, carried the Government's argument in the 1953 school-desegregation cases and the Little Rock high school case. Rankin recruited a staff of 14 outstanding private lawyers and law professors. All 56 field offices of the FBI lent their help. So did the CIA, the Secret Service, the State Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service?and even the Soviet government, which sent in sketchy reports of Oswald's 32-month stay in Russia...
Cupped Chin. The next blow fell at the home of a near neighbor of the Prime Minister-India's Solicitor General Hem Nath Sanyal. Late one night four men broke into Sanyal's bungalow and choked him to death with a dhoti, or loincloth. Since Sanyal had been pressing corruption charges against several ministers of Orissa state, members of Parliament cried that his murder must be connected with the investigation-though Delhi's police insisted it was only a robbery attempt...
...defense took 1 hr. 40 min. to present its case, which consisted chiefly of unsworn testimony by both Sims and Myers that they were innocent. "I believe I was in Athens at the time," said Sims. Parroted Myers: "I do believe I was in Athens at this time." State Solicitor-General Clete Johnson demanded the death penalty, told the jury: "This is an extreme case and demands the extreme penalty. It was cold-blooded assassination...
Justice Department lawyers boast that they have not lost any important antitrust case since 1953, and U.S. Solicitor General Archibald Cox has a string of 15 straight Supreme Court victories. "If I were in private practice," says a trustbusting lawyer, "I would advise my clients in concentrated industries that nearly any merger undertaken today is apt to be challenged successfully unless cleared with us beforehand...
Though City Solicitor Richard D. Gerould '24 finally decided not to advise Brennan to give the group a parade permit, which a Cambridge ordinance requires, CRCC decided after a Friday meeting with city officials and legal advisers to go ahead with its plans. The city apparently ignored the ordinance...