Word: lawyers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Richard Lent, a tax lawyer, boarded an 8 a.m. Eastern Air Lines shuttle in Washington bound for New York City last week, he took a seat in the rear section of the plane and, mindful of his rights, demanded that his area on the filled aircraft be designated a nonsmoking section. The flight attendants obliged, but some passengers apparently did not hear the ensuing announcement. When a few lit up, Lent lashed out. The fuming smokers decided they would rather fight than switch. Then, according to one flight attendant, "The screaming, yelling and hollering, shoving and insults really started...
...center government would emerge. It was not to be. Last week, when a record 87.5% of the electorate went to the polls, the vote instead went narrowly to a new center-right coalition called the Democratic Alliance. Its leader, Francisco Sá Carneiro, 45, an ambitious, sometimes abrasive, conservative lawyer-politician, is expected to be named Premier...
...scrappy resistance to busing in the racially divided system, now 80% nonwhite, won him praise from whites-and steady criticism from minorities and the Federal Government. But when Hannon recently telephoned to talk about the schools with his friend Don Reuben, a well-connected local lawyer and adviser to Chicago's Mayor Jane Byrne, he got a chilling message. "Things had changed," Hannon recalls being told. "He said if I had anything more to say I'd better have my attorney handy...
...judgments into the final draft. True, Stewart scoffed that the final product had been edited from a "D" to a "B" by law school grading standards, but the incident showed that the court has internal checks and balances. Lobbying by outsiders is shown to be futile. When the Washington lawyer and Franklin Roosevelt brain-truster Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran visited his old friend Black and acquaintance Brennan to get a controversial antitrust decision reheard, or when New York Times Editor James ("Scotty") Reston telephoned Burger to talk about the Pentagon papers case, they were quickly rebuffed...
...Lawyer's fee draws fire