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...revised transcript, again carried his case to the U.S. Supreme Court. But last December, after ordering the seventh stay of execution, the court rejected Chessman's appeal for a review of a state court decision upholding the revised transcript. A Superior Court judge set a new execution date...
...about the outcome. He was "powerless," he said, to take any further action in the Chessman case. "The regular schedule of executions will continue under the constitution and laws of the State of California." Under that schedule Caryl Chessman was notified once again that he would be executed. The date: next...
...holy month in which the Koran was revealed to Mohammed, good Moslems must abstain from food and sex according to the most rigorous rules. Strict devotion to Ramadan lays a heavy burden on modern urban living: people became irritable and ineffectual on the job. Tunisia's up-to-date President Habib Bourguiba recently clamped down on the all-night nightclubs where celebrants make up for daylight denials, and boldly persuaded considerable numbers of his urban coreligionists to break their Ramadan fast this year and get on with their normal daily work (TIME, Feb. 22). Last week Cairo...
...group that once gave basic training to Comics Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May rented a Chinese laundry, built a stage and paneled the walls with the sides of discarded phone booths. Many in the company-including Director Paul Sills, Actors Barbara Harris, Severn Darden, Andrew Duncan-date back to the Nichols-May-Berman days, keep up their longstanding practice of developing material as it comes into their heads during rehearsal...
...line for juveniles, intended to bag history buffs in their formative years. The teen-agers are responding every bit as enthusiastically as their elders; the second book in this line (Indians of the Plains) has already gone out to 25,000 subscribers in advance of the April 15 publication date, and 50,000 more copies are in the hands of bookstores. Says Parton: "It's mass historia...