Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criminal lawyer, Williams has devoted his career to destroying the notion that a lawyer be ideologically identified with his client -- or, as he says, "the insidious concept of guilt by client." Williams, who admits that he thoroughly enjoys a court fight, has taken spectacular and unpopular cases to make his point...
...fortnight the anti-Communist forces in Laos have been in chaos. First, the charismatic commander of the neutralist army, General Kong Le, flew off to Thailand in a huff when three of his colonels challenged his right to give the orders. He was already unpopular because of three "dragon's eggs" given him by a superstitious peasant. Draconic rage at their theft supposedly brought floods down upon the land (TIME, Oct. 21), so his rest cure in Bangkok for what he called a "sprained arm" was likely to be lengthy. Then came a rebellion of royalist air force officers...
...intent of the compromise, as everyone realizes, is to relieve the School Committee of the brunt of public criticism when unpopular speakers use Rindge. Under the compromise the Committee members could say they were fulfilling a Harvard dean's personal request for Rindge, rather than the request of a mere student organization. Though it won't be so, it will seem to the public that Harvard, and not the School Committee, is presenting a particular speaker...
...less than a month to election time in Massachusetts, and the political tempo is accelerating. Last week, the pressure of politics had one very obvious effect: Gov. John A. Volpe abandoned his administration's long-standing, but unpopular, position favoring the Brook-line-Elm St. route for the Inner Belt through Cambridge. Volpe pledged he would "start from scratch" in selecting a path for the highway...
...dully predictable. The usual charges of bossism against the Democrats have been made by the city liberals, FDR Jr., and the Republicans. But the course of the state party conventions reduced them to absurdity: while the Republican, Liberal, and Conservative conventions went docilely through the motions of nominating the unpopular and unknown candidates their party bosses had long since chosen, the Democrats got into a real fight over the Lieutenant-Governorship. They ended up nominating the genuinely attractive Howard Samuels, who was the original choice of none of the "bosses." The surprising nomination of Samuels has made every subsequent charge...