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...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...
...Before a Chamber of Commerce meeting in Yonkers, N.Y., Bobby Kennedy proposed a three-point attack on the "explosion of violence and crime" that is "spreading like a cancer across the land," including more and better-paid policemen and greater attention to low-income neighborhoods. New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay, whose police force is trying to cope with a 22.7% upsurge in major crimes in the past year, warned of an increasing "polarization" between affluent whites and impoverished Negroes and Puerto Ricans in U.S. cities...
...marketable history and description of Massachusetts that would even look good on Democratic coffee tables. Farmer did just that. Winging metaphorically from Boston ("a state of mind") to Harvard-M.I.T. ("a modern Macedonian phalanx"), he produced an attractive, knowledgeable study of the state without sounding like a chamber-ofcommerce come...
...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...