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...program? Dieter Kolff and his fellow scientists leading America's effort to catch up with the Soviets and put a man into orbit. Astronaut John Pope making his spectacular walk in space. And, of course, that historic Apollo landing on the dark side of the moon and its terrifying brush with disaster...
...lawyers says the amount will not be a contingency percentage of the final award. It was "an excellent choice," acknowledges Harry Lipsig of the runner-up Manhattan firm Lipsig, Sullivan & Liapakis. In 1957, Robins Zelle took on its first major industrial-disaster case, involving a fire at a Fuller Brush factory in St. Paul. The firm represented Fuller Brush's insurance company against third parties accused of responsibility for the fire and won a substantial award. A string of similar victories followed, and in the early '70s, Robins Zelle's national reputation was made when it chalked up million-dollar...
After medical school, he took a year of psychiatric residency at Cornell Medical College in New York City, where he had an eye-opening brush with the Freudian ideas that were just beginning to percolate through American culture. "If I deserve any credit, it's for this idea that I should have some psychological training," Spock says. "It still mystifies me that I was so sure I needed that...
...Pentagon's ballyhooed crackdown. "It's all show," said George Spanton, who was a Defense Department auditor for 25 years and became a celebrated whistle blower. "I can assure you that the last four years have been the worst that the department has seen. They are going after the brush fires...
Many ethically unsullied lawyers represent gangsters, of course. "The broad- brush effect of the term Mob lawyer is totally unfair," says James La Rossa, a prominent litigator who is counseling one of the nine men accused last month of being members of a national Mafia governing board. If no man is above the law, says Michael Rovell of Chicago's Jenner & Block, "the corollary is that no man should be below the law either. Somebody has to represent these people." But, acknowledges La Rossa, "there are lawyers who are climbing into bed with mobsters and doing things they shouldn...