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...doubt of Kerrigan's guilt, that conviction had been made on the basis of circumstantial evidence, and that two other publicized killings of policemen in recent days had influenced the case. The judgments of juries are and always have been human and imperfect acts; in Kerrigan's case, the element of doubt is simply more striking than it is in most murder cases. But the death penalty denies that there can be any doubt...
...same title in Montgomery. Each has an equal say in management and draws the same "salary" (one-half percent of pre-tax profits, less $25,000, which amounted to some $163,000 for each in the year just closed). Explains J. E.: "I'm the conservative element, the long-range planner. A. D. is always the aggressive expansionist. Austin specializes in the big stores, and Tine is the personality...
Only Whisker-Deep. Machismo is still the element that separates Latin American leaders from the also-rans. In pre-Castro Cuba, the army of Dictator Fulgencio Batista respected its leader almost as much for his manliness and his brood of illegitimate children as for the military daring that first brought him to power in 1933. Castro is another story. Though he has the whiskery look of virility, and was considered muy macho for invading Cuba with only 81 men, his he-man rating fell sharply after he let Khrushchev pull out his missiles, and his love life, in the opinion...
...senators posed a question: If the treaty had not already been initialed, would you be for it? Said Army General Earle G. Wheeler, "I would probably have come up with the same decision." The Navy's Admiral David L. McDonald claimed that it "was not a decisive element." Declared Marine General David M. Shoup, "I had access to the words of the treaty before it was initialed and I was in favor of its being initialed...
Prof. Trypanis emphasized yesterday that America is the "only civilized country in the world without a chair in modern Greek studies." He said a student "cannot understand either the culture of the Balkans or the Near East" without understanding "the modern Greek element there." Trypanis apologized for being "materialistic," and added that with United States interests in those two areas growing continually, the establishment of a chair was increasingly important...