Word: chambered
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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Sounds and Sights of Chicago": a musical tour of the Windy City with Conductor Jean Martinon and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Junior Wells and his Chicago Blues Band, Ralph Shapey and the Contemporary Chamber Players, Folk Singer Jo Mapes and the Chicago Lyric Opera Ballet...
When the Truth-in-Lending bill goes to conference committee with the Senate, the previously timid upper chamber will find that the House has grown markedly militant, fed by favorable publicity and heavy public approval. Five consumer measures have already been passed by the 90th Congress, and more are on the way-prompting Lyndon Johnson, in his State of the Union message last month, to describe it as "the Consumer Congress." For the time being at least, the American consumer reigns as king of Capitol Hill...
...Chamber. When Gary Lee Miller, 17, was charged with the bludgeon murder of Judy Lee Ziegler, 20, few of the folks in Allegany County, Md., doubted that he was guilty. After all, he knew Judy and had been seen walking along the same road that Judy had been driving on the murder night. What's more, he was a strange, unpopular kid and had been convicted of rape three years before. There was so much prejudice against him that his court-appointed attorney doubted that an impartial jury could be impaneled. Rather than risk it, he asked that...
Despite the doubts, Presiding Judge Harold Naughton remains outspokenly convinced that the boy is guilty and deserves the gas chamber. "There was no defense at all," he says, and the death penalty "has been a real deterrent to teen-age crime...
...Justice Abe Fortas read the 37-page opinion that put an end to ten years of frustrating negotiation and deliberation, the smile on the face of a chunky, balding spectator seemed to light up the marbled chamber. For Stuart Thomas Saunders, 58, the man who has already been picked to head the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co., the court's 8-0* vote was a singular personal triumph...