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...even those who felt that the decision was constitutionally sound, were dismayed by its practical consequences. Of the 8,000 prisoners in Florida penal institutions, 4,542 were convicted without benefit of counsel. Already more than 3,000 have petitioned for review of their convictions. Court calendars are jammed; distraught prosecutors are working overtime searching petitioners' records and drawing up answering briefs; county budget directors are hunting desperately for funds to pay for retrials. The only hope for straightening things out, says the clerk of Escambia County's court of records, is to give some "Gideonite...
Died. Richard Barthelmess, 68, square-jawed movie idol of the '20s and '30s, best remembered as the country-boy hero of Tol'able David and the rescuer of distraught D. W. Griffith heroines in Broken Blossoms and Way Down East, a canny New Yorker who invested his savings well, lived out a comfortable retirement (since 1942) with a Long Island mansion and a yacht; of cancer; in Southampton...
Paul Schmidt, as Fadinard, was also largely responsible for the shortcomings of the performance. Labiche created a part that could be played many ways; Schmidt's totally distraught, rather weak and frantic bridegroom is not one of them...
...letter to the Moslem wise men of Egypt's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, a distraught Iraqi electrician wrote: "I vowed to sacrifice my son for Arab unity. Now that it has been achieved, should I carry out my vow and kill my boy?" An Al Azhar scholar replied that he was moved by the writer's faith, but warned that Moslem law forbids human sacrifices. Therefore, "your vow carries no obligation and should not be executed...
Suddenly, it was Jack's, not Arnie's, private tournament. Everybody tried to take it away, including one distraught Palmer fan who ran into a pine forest to retrieve his hero's errant ball and throw it back onto the fairway. But Palmer was unable to master his short game, on the third day added a second straight 73 to his opening round 74 and grumpily conceded that he was out of the running. "My putting stinks," he said. "I'll be glad when this is over." So would a lot of other golfers. The weather...