Word: celling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human rights at 5 and 10? store lunch counters. The exchange of minds funneled through ballot boxes and sound trucks in New Hampshire, and men of political ambition raised voices at farms and factory gates in Wisconsin, while the question of one man's survival clanged through the cell bars of California's San Quentin prison and reawakened the Bible-old debate over the right of one man to take the life of another...
Behind the bleak concrete walls of California's San Quentin state prison, a Death Row guard handed a brief note, signed by the warden, to the pale, heavy-browed prisoner in Cell 2455. "Dear Sir," it began...
...Civil Aeronautics Board last week confirmed that the fatal crash of a National Airlines DC-6B in North Carolina (TIME, Jan. 18) was caused by sabotage. Reported CAB Chairman James Durfee: "We have found evidence that a dynamite explosion, initiated by a dry-cell battery, occurred within the aircraft cabin in the vicinity of the seat occupied by Julian Frank." Manhattan Lawyer Frank, deeply in debt, had insured his life for more than...
...jury under California's "Little Lindbergh Law" (which, like the federal "Lindbergh Law," makes kidnaping with bodily harm a capital offense) and sentenced to die. It was after he was condemned that he began stirring up his astonishing storm. He published three books, one of which, Cell 2455 Death Row, became a bestseller, and all of which, according to his publishers, Prentice-Hall, sold "millions" of copies in more than a dozen translations from Norway to Japan...
Back in his sixth-floor cell, with his trusty typewriter and law books, was happy Caryl Whittier Chessman. The Governor himself took off for a weekend meeting of fellow Democrats in Las Vegas, Nev., but he left Sacramento besieged, bothered and bewildered. His mail, once 10 to 1 in favor of saving Chessman, had turned 3 to 1 in denunciation of the Governor himself. It would surely grow worse in the next 60 days, for, though Caryl Chessman had sown the wind, Pat Brown was reaping the whirlwind...