Word: caryl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philip Caryl Jessup, Judge, International Court of Justice...
Turner's record is marred by one embarrassing failure: he has yet to spring himself-a problem that afflicts even the best jailhouse lawyers. San Quentin's Caryl Chessman, for instance, studied 10,000 legal works, took 1,000,000 words of notes, ground out more than 100 assorted writs, appeals and petitions, for stays of his own execution-and still the state put him to death in the gas chamber...
Finger of Fate. All this worries many thoughtful academicians. Biologist Caryl P. Haskins, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington warned last week that Big Science crash projects threaten to create "massive imbalances" in U.S. research. The Ph.D. drive also alarms liberal arts colleges that cannot compete with big universities for research-minded students and professors. What is happening, asks Columbia University's Provost Jacques Barzun, "to the beautiful notion of developing the imaginative and the reasoning powers apart from marketable skill?" In a day when "one sheepskin to one sheep is no longer enough," he says, "the liberal...
...spring was scattered but distinct. A number of small political organizations had been formed, each for a specific purpose. A civil rights group formed in sympathy with the Woolworth sit-ins in Montgomery, Alabama. A disarmament group was encouraged by the Spirit of Camp David. Another organization sympathized with Caryl Chessman's plea for clemency. In all, five such organizations had formed in the spring of 1960. They were collectively known as "single issue clubs." A few observers, including professors David Reisman and Stuart Hughes, guessed that politics at Harvard were about to be reborn...
...know personally, Randall wrote right back, sending along a photograph of himself. (It didn't work.) He has kind notes from representatives of Jackie Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Albert Schweitzer and Winston Churchill saying that they are simply too busy to send autographs. When he tried to get Caryl Chessman's signature, however, he got only a steely note from an assistant warden of San Quentin saying that prisoners were not permitted to give autographs...