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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, with a sudden change in tone, his voice began to rise, to speed up, and soon he was racing through a fluent speech, hardly pausing for breath. He spoke for an hour, with restrained emotion, about the decay of his profession and his cause -- criminal...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: Edward Bennett Williams | 11/8/1966 | See Source »

Scott was one of three law professors who spoke at a special service in Memorial Church yesterday. Erwin Griswold '29, Dean of the Law School, and Louis Loss, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, also spoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Baker Of Law School Dies at Age 78 | 11/8/1966 | See Source »

...President spoke of the peace demonstrators who had dogged him on his visit Down Under. "In the last few days," he said, "I have seen banners that say, 'We want peace,' and I say, 'So do I.' But I would also like to say to those young people carrying those signs, 'You brought them to the wrong persons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Protecting the Flank | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...picture sells Adlai short. It sizes him up in terms only of the Kennedy campaign style of wit and eloquence while ignoring his administrative competence and his political views. Recently at a fund-raising dinner for Douglas, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. differentiated the genuine politicians from the synthetic ones. He spoke of President Kennedy, Ambassador Stevenson, Senator Douglas and even Barry Goldwater as men of sincere political convictions, as genuine politicians. In the second category he put Ronald Reagan and Charles Percy, saying that they were men who tailored their convictions to the whim of the crowd. One should think...

Author: By Thomas J. Moore, | Title: Adlai Stevenson III | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

Simmons, who was left behind to try to prove his innocence, had two Mexican lawyers, neither of whom spoke enough English to communicate with their bewildered client, one of whom is now a fugitive facing embezzlement charges. Though the defendant voluntarily took two lie-detector tests, which are sometimes admissible in Mexican courts, the inconclusive results were ignored. The murder gun was never found; a clear tire mark at the scene did not match Simmons' tires; hundreds of curiosity seekers obliterated all fingerprints on the death car before police thought of checking it for fingerprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Law: Until Proven Innocent | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

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