Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...crime of murder is shocking in its impact on the public. So is the execution of the death penalty. Capital punishment also involves long periods of unhealthy sensationalism and emotionalism in trying a person for his life. It is something the public should not be required to endure just because there are still people who state that capital punishment is a deterrent, though they have no proof...
...Atlanta census taker climbed to the top of a flagpole to count Flagpole Sitter Odell Smith, and in California one hard-working enumerator discovered a murder victim...
...Knight newspaper chain, used' the occasion to measure the gulf between the journalism of Mellett's time and today. Said Hills: "For many years journalism in the big city newsrooms was based on the star system. When a big story broke-a jail break, a sensational murder, some hanky-panky at city hall-the city editor called for the star and plastered his colorful prose all over the front page. This was nice work. But the oldtime star needed no special knowledge in any field, little formal education, and often no real command of the language...
...Black Knights-soared over the free world's largest land rocket range. In beach-girt Sydney, schoolteachers and tram conductors exchanged stock market tips, and in stately Adelaide, where Australia's first major Festival of the Arts was in full swing, T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral played to capacity...
Died. Martin Dalton, 91, convicted of robbery and murder in 1897, who, when offered parole in 1930, toured the outside for a day, wept at the sight of cars instead of buggies, short skirts instead of bustles, and refused to leave the penitentiary; in Rhode Island State Prison, where he saw his last visitor in 1898, received his last letter...