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Married. Gamble Benedict, 24, Remington typewriter heiress, whose endlessly publicized 1960 runaway marriage to onetime Chauffeur Andrei Porumbeanu was annulled last October; and Thomas Gallagher, 32, former New York Thruway motorcycle cop, now an $11,500-a-year State Police investigator; both for the second time; in a Roman Catholic ceremony (the church does not recognize either of their first marriages); in Clinton...
...Courtney Murray has said: "Human life has a basic sacredness whether a person holds high office or whether he is among the humblest." Only recently, New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, reluctantly signing a bill abolishing the death penalty in New York except in the case of cop killers and life prisoners who kill guards or other inmates, asked pointedly: "If the proponents admit that the death penalty is a deterrent in some cases, then why not in others?" But the House was in no mood for such objections, and when the vote finally came, only Burton...
...parked car, Akers sent an irate memo to his staff: "The Moretti case stinks to high heaven. I want to go after this as we have never gone after anything before." Despite threats on his life, Akers kept his staff digging until there was enough evidence to put the cop on trial for murder. Moretti was convicted and got a life sentence...
...Take yer hatsoff!" cried a cop in brogue as seniors, debating the advantages of hook-and-eye over zipper gowns, shuffled by the statue of the founder of our nation's oldest and richest institution. Across the Common, where the girls commenced, it was all over by the kissing; for Harvard, only a dry run at the "Rump of Sever...
...years at Sing Sing Prison, New York State's 2,000-volt electric chair has efficiently ended 614 lives. Last month opponents of capital punishment persuaded the state legislature to pass a bill abolishing execution for all but two classes of murderers-cop killers and life prisoners who kill guards or inmates while in jail or while trying to escape. Governor Nelson Rockefeller sharply criticized those exceptions as morally indefensible. "If the proponents admit that the death penalty is a deterrent in some cases," he asked, "then why not in others...