Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...time he returned to Teheran and never stopped his bitter criticism of the Shah, holding meetings every week at his home or the home of his co-ideologist. Strangely enough, he had to leave for Paris after the Revolution. Did Rev. Kimball meet the most revered and loved Iranian lawyer who was staying in the U.S. for the past 15 years directing the anti-Shah movement, who went to Iran immediately after the Revolution but had to leave for Paris soon after that. Does Rev. Kimball remember that even the Ayatollah Khomeini, number one enemy of the Shah, was only...
...feud got rough just after the exhibition season began. Georgia called her stepson in and, with a lawyer on hand to back her up, fired him. Said Steve later: "I knew the handwriting was on the wall when my father died...
...gifted lawyer and labor mediator, Sovern made his mark on Morningside Heights in 1968 when he used reason to calm a divided faculty and helped establish a democratic campus senate. He has shown similar peacemaking skills in helping to settle New York City's strikes; for 14 years he has also served as consultant to TIME'S Law section. Born in The Bronx, Sovern attended the Bronx High School of Science, took both his B. A. and law degrees at Columbia as a scholarship student and at 28 became the youngest full professor in the school...
DIED. Oscar R. Ewing, 90, head of the Federal Security Agency for five years before its 1953 reconstitution as the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; in Chapel Hill, N.C. Ewing, a Wall Street lawyer, led Harry Truman's bid to win nomination as Franklin Roosevelt's running mate in 1944 and engineered his 1948 presidential campaign. At the F.S.A., he sharply expanded the Social Security system. Critics accused Ewing of helping to build a welfare state, but he insisted that federally provided basic services were "the best possible defense against socialism...
...time his lawyer began plea-bargaining last October, the hard evidence was there. Kenneth Bianchi, 27, a Bellingham, Wash., security guard was in deed the Hillside Strangler, responsible for the murder of ten young women in Los Angeles from September 1977 to February 1978 - as well as two later killings in Washington that resulted in his arrest...