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...last week. Trim in a prison-made blue suit, paroled Nathan Leopold Jr., 53, took the arm of Lawyer Elmer Gertz, pushed his way to five microphones set up on a nearby road, and over shouts and shutter clicks read a statement to 100-odd newsmen and photographers: "I beg, I beseech you ... to grant me a gift almost as precious as freedom itself-a gift without which freedom ceases to have much value-the gift of privacy. Give me a chance-a fair chance-to start life anew." Then he answered a few questions about his $10-a-month...
...Immorality Act forbids sexual relations between whites and nonwhites. In the dock, Keyser, owner of two dairies and a former tennis champion of Northern Transvaal, pleaded: "I beg to be released with a warning. I was private secretary to the Prime Minister and have a wife and two children. I was held in high esteem by the public, and I do not drink or smoke...
...free world's faith in its cause. At home and abroad, the President moved notably in the second week of the new year to give those who called for it a touch of the style of command he once summed up: "Only strength can cooperate; weakness can only beg...
...last year, told Massachusetts authorities that it will soon go broke if it cannot cut commuter service to save a minimum of $3,000,000 a year. And in the face of the "grave situation" confronting the entire industry, nine top U.S. trainmen went to the White House to beg for help to get a complete overhaul in rail regulations and rates...
...expunge from the script specific references to death or dying. This week Gramps got a tasteful TV funeral and such sponsor-selected eulogies as "Gramps's gone. Everybody loved him," and "He was a grand old man." And Timmy was allowed to get on his knees again to beg God to "take good care of Gramps in heaven." At his side, whimpering mournfully, sat Lassie,* a middle-aged pro of five, still willing to nuzzle through another few lucrative years on TV for the tots...