Word: attorney
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...cast of characters. The overall direction is in the hands of Kirk, who served as Kennedy's top Senate aide for eight years. He is one of Kennedy's closest political cronies and one of the ablest political strategists in the country. Rick Stearns, 35, a former assistant district attorney in Massachusetts, who was a strategist for George McGovern in 1972, will be the campaign's delegate hunter, trying to fill the Kennedy slates. Carl Wagner, 34, who was Kirk's successor on Kennedy's Senate staff, will fly around the country, setting up campaign committees. Only...
Next morning, Gargan and Markham joined Kennedy at the inn. They returned to Chappaquiddick at about 9 a.m. and entered a shack near the ferry slip, where Kennedy tried in vain to phone a family friend, Attorney Burke Marshall. At that point, Ferryman Richard Hewitt asked if they knew about the wrecked car, which had been discovered by some fishermen. Hewitt later testified that Markham replied, "Yes. We just heard about it." Only then did Kennedy go to the police station and report the accident...
...than a year in power. According to Washington rumor, such top businessmen as Henry Ford II, General Electric's Reginald Jones and Xerox's Peter McColough have turned down the post of Secretary of Commerce. Carter last week approved California Federal Judge Charles B. Renfrew as Deputy Attorney General. But Renfrew's formal nomination is being held up because Hispanics consider him unsympathetic. Carter now wants to couple Renfrew's appointment with the nomination of a Hispanic to another important post...
...Johns were confronted with the findings before they were published. Some confessed, some denied. John Markert, 51, executive secretary of the Minnesota Catholic Conference, had testified four years ago against decriminalizing prostitution; Markert denied the Star's allegations. So did Minneapolis Assistant City Attorney Allen Hyatt, who has prosecuted prostitutes...
Acting U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Thorwald Anderson Jr., 42, at first denied the charges, then backtracked. "I certainly made an error for which there is no excuse," said Anderson. "I further erred because I denied it to Star reporters. We will now test the ancient adage that bad publicity is better than no publicity at all." Walter H. Mann, 63, chief judge of the state's Fifth District, admitted his guilt and advocated decriminalization, calling prostitutes "compassionate human beings." State Senator Jack Kleinbaum, 62, also owned up to visiting certain saunas, but added, "It isn't something...