Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CLINTON, N.J., Old Music Hall: Philip Burton directs "the Acting Company" in G. B. Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession...
What debate there was centered on the bill's capital-punishment proviso. Noting that he would vote against the bill, California Democrat Phillip Burton explained that while he supported the purpose of the law, "my conscience requires that I oppose the imposition of the death penalty even in this most serious of crimes." Against that, North Carolina Democrat Basil Whitener said: "If any of us believe in the death penalty, we certainly should believe in it with reference to a premeditated murder committed on a President of the United States...
...killers and life prisoners who kill guards or other inmates, asked pointedly: "If the proponents admit that the death penalty is a deterrent in some cases, then why not in others?" But the House was in no mood for such objections, and when the vote finally came, only Burton and his fellow California Democrat Ronald Cameron were against the bill...
Married. Sybil Burton, 36, Richard's silvery-haired ex, currently hostess à-go-go of Arthur, Manhattan discothèque; and Jordan Christopher (nè Zankoff), 24, rag-mopped leader of the Wild Ones, the club's rock-along band; both for the second time; in Manhattan. Ventured the groom's father, an Akron saloonkeeper: "I don't know what Sybil saw in him. Whatever it is, I'd like to know...
...names, the gestures, are meaningless pressagentry. All you really have to do is shake your hips a little and then, as Sybil Burton puts it, "dance to suit yourself." Dancing to rock 'n' roll has become such a private reverie, in fact, that a partner, except in deference to custom, is not necessary. And that is its great attraction. Since couples neither touch nor even look at each other, all the shyness some men and women have about dancing?clammy hands, missing a beat, stepping on feet, etc.?is removed and, as one club owner says, "Everybody goes...