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...demonstrate that society takes its laws seriously; retribution seems a natural human urge. As the homicide rate doubled during the 1960s and early '70s, however, federal courts were becoming ever more scrupulous in their review of capital sentences. Then, in 1972, came the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling: in Furman vs. Georgia, the court decided that state laws permitted judges and juries so much leeway in prescribing death that the sentence as applied was arbitrary, and thus unconstitutional. Capital punishment, wrote Justice Potter Stewart, was "freakishly imposed" on a "capriciously selected random handful" of murderers. However...
...white and blue neon pulsating gaudily above the rooftops, the sign advertising Citgo, the Cities Service Company's trademark, somehow seemed right for Boston; for all its tackiness, the great ad in the sky fitted in. But now a threat looms over the garish and beloved landmark: Cities Service wants to tear it down...
...Bostonians fighting to give a defunct electric advertisement the same landmark protection as hallowed Boston Common? Arthur Krim, a consultant to the Massachusetts Historical Society, puts the issue simply:"This sign is also part of the heritage that makes Boston a very interesting place...
...began as a series of informal jam sessions in a French Quarter art gallery. The pickup sessions soon gave way to regular nightly concerts, and, under the management of Sandra and Allan Jaffe, a transplanted Pennsylvania couple, the hall eventually became a sort of New Orleans cultural landmark. It offered the musicians regular work, a wider audience and finally international recognition as purveyors of one of America's greatest art forms. Once the hall became established, the few active professionals were joined by dozens of other players who, unable to make a living, had hung up their instruments long...
...licensed for sale a gene-spliced substance that has just become the first such medicine ever approved for human use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Says Dr. John Potts, professor at Harvard Medical School and chief of medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital: "This is really a landmark because it is the first practical development of a useful medicine by new techniques...