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...grand jury in Franklin, Texas, was discharged after five fruitless weeks of investigating the 1961 shooting of Agriculture Department Official Henry H. Marshall, who had been investigating some of Estes' manipulations. Although Marshall was shot five times by a bolt-action rifle, the grand jury said the evidence it had heard was "inconclusive to substantiate a different decision at this time or to override any decision heretofore made." That meant, improbable as it might seem, that the suicide finding by a local justice of the peace would stand...
...Major David Bolté, 36, who serves on the headquarters staff of General Paul Harkins, U.S. commander in South Viet Nam. Father: General (ret.) Charles Bolté, commander of the U.S. 34th Infantry Division in its sweep through Northern Italy during World War II (two uncles are generals...
...Seasons, by Robert Bolt. This New York Drama Critics Circle prize foreign play might have taken its theme from Shakespeare's line, "Every subject's duty is the King's, but every subject's soul is his own." Paul Scofield matchlessly exemplifies the subject, Sir Thomas More...
...Taylor Allen, former Southwest area director for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, said that Henry Marshall, chief of production adjustment in Texas, had been planning to torpedo Estes' cotton scheme, when he was found dead with five bullet holes from a bolt-action rifle. Originally ruled a suicide by local authorities, the case is now being investigated by a grand jury...
...Seasons, by Robert Bolt. This New York Drama Critics Circle prize foreign play focuses on a man who would rather lose his life than his soul. Paul Scofield seems to body forth all the virtues of Sir Thomas More...