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...Administration has a tendency to explain its troubles as inherited from Truman. Last week at a Washington party, Republican Chairman Leonard Hall told a story, kidding his party's line. A drunk, said Hall, was pulled out of a flaming bed in a hotel room and charged with arson. Next day he had a ready explanation for the judge. "Why, your honor,'' he said, "I couldn't have done it. That bed was on fire when I got into...
...philosophy, still lingers on. Many states have eliminated capital punishment entirely; in Maine, Michigan, Rhode Island, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin the heaviest penalty is life imprisonment. But many have not. Some state statute books provide for the death penalty in crimes ranging from train wrecking to rape and arson. Those who defend these laws base their arguments on three basic points; retribution; protection of society; and deterrence of future crimes through example...
...wish, but in the name of the Holy Virgin, don't burn it!" "What do you think we are, thieves?" snapped the youth, and threw the volume on the fire. Outside, policemen detoured traffic around the flaming $4,500,000 building, but made no move to stop the arson...
...Torchbearer. In Baltimore, the court found George M. Tunstall guilty of arson, but released him on probation after he testified that he had set a fire in a trash bucket at his home to smoke out his wife, who had shut herself up in a room with another...
...Murder, arson and rape, if you like, but apathy at a match like that of Saturday! Really! Where did you learn to smear in such a fashion? Charles K. Webster, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University...