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...story at Brown is coach Joe Mullany, once a Los Angeles Laker steward when Wilt Chamberlain played center. Mullany has put together a disciplined team in the model of Pete Caril's squads at Princeton, but with less talent. The Bruins are a defensive club, permitting their opponents just 65 points a game compared to Harvard...
...film is based on the famous Starkweather murders, in which Charles Starkweather and his young girlfriend Caril Fugate went on a shooting spree that resulted in ten deaths in several Western states...
Loaded Guns. Starkweather was the first to stand trial; he was found guilty of murder and was executed on June 25, 1959-the last person to be electrocuted by Nebraska. Throughout her trial, Caril pleaded her innocence, insisting that she was held hostage by the crazed boy and feared for her life if she tried to leave him. Charlie, however, told the jury that she was a willing participant in the killings and could have escaped a number of times when he left her alone with loaded guns. The jury apparently agreed with Starkweather...
...While Caril's attorneys filed petitions requesting a new trial, she busied herself at the Nebraska Center for Women, completing her high school education, reading more than 1,000 books, getting instructions in sewing, and writing a regular "Dear Gabby" column in the institution's paper. Her spotless record earned her the privilege of going bowling, swimming and (occasionally) shopping in the town of York. After exhausting her remedies for retrial, Caril began seeking a reduction in her life sentence. Three years ago, the Nebraska Parole Board, citing "her age at the time of the tragic event," recommended...
...Caril's recent hearing, there were no objections to her petition for freedom. Testified the Nebraska Center's Superintendent Jacqueline Crawford: "Whether she's guilty or innocent is irrelevant. Nebraska has got its pound of flesh." It took the board only ten minutes to reach the decision that Caril is to be released on June 20. Dressed in white, her brown hair freshly curled, she cried as she walked into the room, while the small audience applauded. Caril will settle in Clinton County, Mich., where a family has promised her assistance and a clerical job. She will...