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Pardon to Death? Djamila Bouhired last week was in solitary confinement in the massively grim Barberousse fortress, overlooking the city of Algiers. All legal appeals have failed, and unless she is pardoned by President Coty of France, she will walk to the guillotine as have 127 other Algerians in the...
"More of Less." Famed for his insistence on precision in both design and execution, Mies insisted that the 4-ft. 7½-in. module for the building be rigorously carried throughout, allowed only a one-sixteenth-inch leeway even in the interior offices, hallways and shower rooms. Draftsmen on the...
City school authorities suspended at least 644 children yesterday in swift execution of a new anti-delinquency policy. New York Times, February 8
In the bitter settlement of accounts after World War II, French justice gave short shrift to the men who had run the Vichy government for the Nazis. By the records, 8,348 collaborators were executed without benefit of trial and another 1,325 were sent to their death by kangaroo...
The Real & Unreal. The story of the Wanderer (Lagerkvist names no names) begins with his lack of, charity toward a felon who is being led to a place of execution. The felon, staggering under his cross, says: "You shall suffer greater punishment than mine; you shall never die." Later, whispers...