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Special Facts. Underlying much of the argument is the question of whether the death penalty has a deterrent effect. Most experts feel there are no reliable studies on which to base an answer. Now criminal-justice circles are abuzz with word that in a soon to be published study, Economist Isaac Ehrlich of the University of Chicago claims to have proved the existence of a deterrent effect by a statistical analysis of figures from 1933 to 1969. (The last execution...
...guerillas, $5 million in ransom, and perhaps most important, the publication and broadcast in all the newspapers, and the government-controlled radio and television for the reason for the raid. Somoza immediately declared a state of siege and placed the country under martial law, and the country has been abuzz ever since...
...before, the papers had published pictures of a smiling and apparently hale Franco, and a television film showed him chatting amiably with visitors and journalists. But after the somber bulletin, a special edition of Madrid's evening newspaper Informaciones was snapped up within minutes, and the capital was abuzz with rumors and speculation about Spain's future...
Area jesters and sycophants have a field day this time of year speculating about who will receive Harvard honorary degrees at Commencement. With Harry Truman out of the running, the flunkies and lackeys are abuzz with talk of Lon Nol, the harsh dictator of Cambodia...
...heard him smiling into a telephone, "I want the President of the United States to issue that statement after the conference, not before. Get that straight!" And, I am told on good authority, he once greeted a room full of senior faculty members, who had come to see him abuzz over questions like the role of stoichiometry in the modern university, etc., by saying, "Can we keep this short? I was up all night finishing Phase...