Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Although a former Republican running as an independent, lawyer Foglietta has switched his registration to Democratic and apparently successfully outflanked Republican candidate Robert Burke. Robert Barnett, campaign manager for Foglietta, says that his candidate's 20 years as a city councilman, coupled with surveys showing that 70 per cent of the electorate identifies Myers with Abscam, should overcome voter tendency to pick the straight Democratic ticket. "We're counting on them to exhibit one more level of sophistication," he says, citing polls that give Foglietta 47 per cent of the vote and Myers 19 per cent...
...House after his Abscam bribery conviction, is expected to lose to Tom Foglietta, a former G.O.P. city councilman who is running as an independent. South Carolina Congressman John Jenrette, also convicted in Abscam, is depending on his popularity among rural blacks to win his tight race against Republican Lawyer John Napier...
MARRIED. Dustin Hoffman, 43, versatile film actor (Papillon, Marathon Man) who this year won an Academy Award for his performance in Kramer vs. Kramer; and Lisa Gottsegen, 25, a lawyer; he for the second time, six days after his divorce from Anne Byrne, his actress-dancer wife of eleven years; in Roxbury, Conn. Hoffman and Gottsegen met through his parents and her grandparents, who were neighbors in Los Angeles...
...Government maintains that a fact is material if its revelation would have triggered an inquiry that "might" have turned up facts barring citizenship-participation in atrocities, for example. That is not enough, insists Fedorenko's lawyer, Brian Gildea of New Haven, Conn. The Government has to show that such an investigation definitely "would" have led to the discovery of damning facts. Says Allan Ryan, head of the Justice Department's special unit for tracking down former war criminals: "That's no different from saying we have to prove the atrocities from scratch right in the courtroom...
Pogrebin, 41, has done her homework: eight years of research and writing, 16 of marriage and 15 of child rearing went into the book. She says of herself and her husband Bert, 46, a labor lawyer: "For the first few years I'm sure we raised Abigail and Robin, our twins [girls, now 15] the regular way, surrounded by dolls and carriages." In 1970 Pogrebin, a Brandeis graduate at 19 who had risen to vice president of the publishing firm of Bernard Geis Associates, wrote a book called How to Make It in a Man 's World. Preparing...