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Whether a new prosecutor will still press for the death penalty is problematical. There was talk of a possible deal that would permit Ruby to plead guilty to the lesser charge of murder without malice and a maximum five-year sentence-with the years he has spent in jail to count as time served...
...would eliminate, at a minimum, the same number of jobs and uproot about 150 families. Moreover, it would run through and industrial area near M.I.T. which promises to attract a considerable amount of future research and defense industry. Given these relative costs, however, the Portland-Albany route seems the lesser of two evils...
Dartmouth, a week after its 7-6 loss to Holy Cross, trounced Princeton, 31-13, and amply demonstrated who is still the team to beat. Powerful Cornell put on another big offensive show against Penn, winning 45-28. Harvard and Yale triumphed over lesser foes, but the margin of victory was sufficient to make folks think twice before endorsing Dartmouth or Cornell...
...possibility of a guilty plea or bargaining for a lesser charge...
...lesser offenses, Denaburg says, "They have a hell of a lot of whiskey houses operating in niggertown. It doesn't really hurt society for Negroes to sit in a house and drink whiskey and have skin games. They're not bothering anyone else besides themselves...