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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...