Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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They have discovered that Puerto Ricans take their politics the old-fashioned way, urging the candidates to shake hands, gobble down morcillas (sausages) and twirl senoritas around the dance floor. "People want to see what the politicians look like close up," explains Connally Supporter Raymond Catala, a San Juan lawyer. "They want to touch them...
...they took the story to the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. A Hartford, Conn., nurse and a Brookline, Mass., doctor, both affiliated with the right-to-life movement, then visited Spring and also emerged with a no to the same question. Do the responses reflect Spring's true feelings? Concedes Lawyer Mark I. Berson, the court-appointed guardian leading the legal fight to preserve Spring's life: "You can get a yes or no answer to any question, but that does not mean he understands the question." Nevertheless Berson appealed Keedy's decision, arguing that Spring might have regained...
DIED. Paul Blanshard, 87, anti-Catholic polemicist and lawyer who bedeviled the church in the 1940s and '50s with numerous lawsuits and such incendiary treatises as the bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949); in St. Petersburg, Fla. A third-generation clergyman and twin brother of Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Paul was a Congregationalist minister before deciding that "Christianity is so full of fraud that any honest man should repudiate the whole shebang and espouse atheism instead." His broadsides against the church's "authoritarian control over the minds of men," something he equated with Stalinism, and its "unAmerican" involvement...
...finished his meal, and was anxious to meet the President. Wallraff could only stall for time: he had only learned of Spinola's visit the day before, and had not yet succeeded in finding a 'President' to greet him. The previous night he had approached several friends--a lawyer, a doctor, a publisher, a member of the Bundestag, a vicar and several professional actors--but none would agree to play the role. Now, despite frequent and frantic telephone calls, Wallraff could not find a suitable President. At four O'clock, he informed Spinola that his President would arrive when...
...Nicholas D. Katzenbach, the lawyer representing Princeton, said yesterday outsiders intruding on university property violate Princeton's right to freely choose its associations...