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San Francisco Lawyer George T. Davis was in a gut-wracking hurry. He glanced at his wristwatch: 8:50 a.m. In 70 minutes Burton W. Abbott, 29, found guilty of murdering a teen-aged girl, would die in San Quentin's gas chamber. Davis waited tensely for the U.S...
...with Abbott, murmured "God bless you." Replied the prisoner calmly: "Thank you." A doctor strapped the long tube of a stethoscope to Abbott's chest. Abbott sat quietly, bound to the execution chair. The warden and other officials left the chamber, bolted the door. Three minutes later the executioner pulled a lever, and 16 pellets of sodium cyanide dropped into a crock of sulphuric acid beneath Abbott's chair. The deadly fumes began to rise...
There are some on the inside who have doubts, too, and when the Committee on Educational Policy meets next week to decide the fate of the Reading Periods, there is some chance the program will be done away with entirely. Certainly the abuse of the Reading Period system in the...
The venerable Dev is half-blind and not the man he used to be, but he is still Ireland's best-known politician. He was a world figure when Dwight Eisenhower was an unknown Army major, served as president of the League of Nations when Richard Nixon was an...
Such a person was Rene LaGuen (Marcel Mouloudji). He is discovered in an act of apparent heroism by a member of the Resistance, Sautier. Later this man betrays the Resistance and LeGuen is ordered to kill him, which he does with pleasure if not comprehension. Long afterwards, as LeGuen awaits...