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...hopes of the condemned focus on the Fowler appeal. A tenth-grade dropout, Fowler, 26, was convicted of killing a man after a fight in July 1973. At his trial, he recalls, "I didn't know anything about the death penalty. I didn't believe that they would give it to a black man for killing another black man." Fowler has maintained a certain fatalistic nonchalance through his 14-month confinement. He wears a cap with the motto "Death Before Dishonor," and refuses cigarettes because "Smoking is hazardous to my health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Living on Death Row | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...Faculty makes up its annual budgets each spring from predictions of the amounts of its various incomes and expenditures; last spring the Fund predicted that this year it would take in $4 million in unrestricted income, slightly more than a tenth of the Faculty's unrestricted budget...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Harvard College Fund Budget Is Likely to Come up Short | 12/3/1974 | See Source »

FRANK ZAPPA, in his tenth year as guitarist and leader of the demonic Mothers of Invention, continues to wrestle with a nagging artistic problem. Should he pattern his music to suit broad, popular musical tastes or should he ignore public sentiments and compose from the heart...

Author: By Richard H.P. Sia, | Title: Zapping Zappa | 11/14/1974 | See Source »

...situation is bleak," Mayer said. Long-run measures he cited included an increased investment in agricultural improvement, which requires large amounts of capital. "I will feel confident when I see one tenth of the capital invested in armaments used for agricultural improvements," he said...

Author: By Philip Drysdale, | Title: Mayer Addresses Med School Panel On World Famine | 11/13/1974 | See Source »

Captain Rudy Green and junior half-back Don Gesicki each scored two touchdowns for the undefeated Elis, who won their seventh successive game this season, and their tenth in row stretching back to last fall...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Elis Down Penn, Move Closer to Showdown; Brown Topples Cornell; Dartmouth Victorious | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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