Word: chessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agin' atheism, agnosticism, romanticism, rationalism, humanism, positivism, existentialism and cubism. He is agin' progressive educators. Method actors, permissive parents, Vedantists, Taoists, Zen Buddhists and Bohemians. Getting personal, he is agin' Jean Jacques Rousseau, Arthur Schopenhauer. Walt Whitman, Alfred Kinsey. Adlai Stevenson, Aldous Huxley, Jack Paar, Caryl Chessman, Erich Fromm, Boris Pasternak, Charles Van Doren, Tennessee Williams, Françoise Sagan, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Archibald MacLeish, Albert Camus. Samuel Beckett, D. T. Suzuki and James F. Powers. He is also agin...
Closed Case. To the Katangese, that closed the case. "I forbid the United Nations to take positions in this matter,"said Munongo, adding by way of explanation that the U.N. had never concerned itself about Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, Caryl Chessman, Draja Mikhailovich or King Feisal. As for any J.K. investigation, Katanga President Moise Tshombe snapped: "I couldn't give a damn...
...sources wondered whether he could refuse a draft for a second race against Kennedy in four years. For the moment, the job in Sacramento seemed very tempting: Democratic Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown was still sloshing around in troubled waters, churned up by his dithering over the execution of Caryl Chessman (TIME cover, March 21) and his ineffectual posturings as leader of the California delegation at the 1960 convention in Los Angeles. But Brown was completing a highly successful and popular legislative program (including a $1.75 billion water bond plan, the largest in the country), and in another year he might...
...date items as Old Man Atom with a locomotive chorus ("Hir-o-shi-ma, Na-ga-sa-ki"). When little Kathy Fiscus died at the bottom of a California well in 1949, the Ballad of Kathy Fiscus was probably inevitable, like the more recent Ballad of Caryl Chessman and today's Ballad of Francis Powers...
...hope that all the anti-capital-punishment people who worked so hard for Caryl Chessman won't be too tired to go to bat for Adolf Eichmann. Adolf, like every criminal, was just a creature of circumstance who was pointed irretrievably to his destiny when he was between one and six. Killing him won't bring back all those people. MURRAY UBERMAN Brooklyn...