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...Kill him! Kill him!" Candle-bearing opponents of capital punishment applauded the outcome. Still, critics on both sides of the issue were disturbed by a process that appears to have become lethally arbitrary. "Here was the same human being before the same court," said Presser after catching his breath. "On Monday, because he didn't invoke the right words and the right theory, the court was going to let him die. Then he said the right words, and the court gave him life...
...they handed the drivers pamphlets describing state laws regarding drunk driving, the patrolmen were checking for alcohol on the drivers' breath or for slurred speech. But of the more than 600 motorists who passed through, only two were pulled over...
During the first act of last week's performance, the audience was sparing with its applause. It was in the second act that Nureev-Fonteyn captured their audience. Nureev put on a breath-catching display of classic male dancing, lifted Fonteyn effortlessly aloft, spurred her on to a performance full of fluency and lyric ardor. At the ballet's climax, when Fonteyn cradled Nureev's head in her arms as he lay on the point of death, there was a quick intake of breath audible through the entire house...
...Singer Mahalia Jackson. First she sang a slow, sorrowful Gospel song titled I've Been Buked and I've Been Scorned. Her voice was marvelous, but her impact was more in her manner. Near tears, she moved her huge audience to tears. But in the very next breath, she would break into an expression of expectant happiness. When that happened, people who had been sobbing a second before began laughing, sharing in her expectancy...
...news that made the whole free world catch its breath last week was the news that Paris was free. It was one of the great days of all time. For Paris is the city of all free mankind, and its liberation last week was one of the great events of all time...