Word: cecil
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...Color of Law." In the Philadelphia triple killing, the state of Mississippi refused to bring murder charges against 18 suspects, including Neshoba County Sheriff Lawrence Rainey, Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price and Philadelphia Cop Richard Willis. Because murder is not a federal offense except when it occurs on U.S.-owned property, Government attorneys prosecuted the 18 on federal charges growing out of an 1870 law. The Government accusations were based on two parts of the law. Section 241 makes it a crime punishable by ten years in prison and a $5,000 fine for "two or more persons to conspire...
Persons & Commodities. In the Georgia slaying, Penn, a Negro who directed vocational schools in the District of Columbia, was gunned down while driving to Washington after a two-week Army Reserve stint at Fort Benning, Ga. A pair of admitted Klansmen, Joseph H. Sims and Cecil W. Myers, were charged with the killing and acquitted of murder in a state court. Federal attorneys subsequently accused them of violating Section 241, but, like Mississippi's Cox, Federal District Judge W. A. Bootle of Macon dismissed the charges...
Died. C. S. (Cecil Scott) Forester, 66, British author transplanted to California, most famed for his ten-book series on the 19th century heroics of the indefatigable Captain Horatio Hornblower; of a heart attack; in Fullerton, Calif. Writing, said Forester, "is a toilsome bore"; yet, with an enforced daily ritual of 1,000 words, he managed in 40 years to publish 45 books on every subject from marionettes to the slave trade, all lucidly worded, all carefully researched. Two novels, Payment Deferred and The African Queen, became film classics, and his cynical 1936 study of the military mind, The General...
Denounce the Dead. Right or wrong, his clients pay for their freedom. Not long ago, Foreman pocketed $200,000 for winning Houston Oil Heiress Cecil Blaffer Hudson a record divorce settlement of $6,500,000. If his clients lack cash, Foreman accepts anything else of value. He now owns more than 40 houses and an office building in Houston, plus several hundred acres scattered throughout Harris County (Houston). His wife pads around their $75,000 home in a pair of house slippers studded with diamond engagement rings earned from his clients...
Superficial Irritant. A few militant Negroes resent any attempt to alter their speech habits. Negro Writer Le-Roi Jones asks: "What's wrong with our black tongue now?" Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. Leader Cecil B. Moore argues that "my dialect never hurt me-and no one tries to change the Irish, Italians or French who have dialects." Author Langston Hughes backhandedly praises the "old shoe" approach as "bordering on the poetic...