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...longhand an application to stay the execution. As he wrote, the lights flickered on and off, a consequence of the drain on the building's electrical system caused by the refrigeration of historic documents in glass cases in the lobby. Only 51 minutes before the scheduled execution, a clerk handed Bronstein's two-page petition to Justice White. Twenty minutes later he issued an order for a stay. The news was flashed to Huntsville, but officials there waited until almost midnight before telling Autry about the reprieve. He was not unplugged from the IVs until 12:40. Still...
...revived it in 1976. Recently, the court has sought to expedite the labyrinthine appeals process, but to little avail as yet. The Autry case seemed to be typical of how the Justices would like to see such cases handled. In 1980, Autry was sentenced to death for murdering Store Clerk Shirley Drouet, 43, in Port Arthur, Texas, when the mother of five asked him to pay $2.70 for a six-pack of beer. "Here's your $2.70," he said and shot her between the eyes. After the conviction, Autry's attorney had appeals turned down in state...
Trevor has not missed the comic side of the sexual revolution. Lovers of Their Time finds a travel-agency clerk and a shop girl meeting daily in an unused hall bathroom of a commercial hotel. It is an ample facility where the couple picnic, frolic in the tub and plan their future before catching the train home: she to her mother, he to a randy wife. Tristram and Isolde as commuters in a tiled cave of love is an entertaining conception. Trevor does more; he dignifies the lovers with a deep understanding of their passions and the mundane force that...
...trained the old way. "It's like bringing people into a religion and teaching them new rituals. Will they be able to relate?"MORTON J. HORWITZ *City College of New York '59, Harvard Ph.D. (Political Science) '64, Harvard Law '67 *Warren Professor of Law, specialist in American Legal History *Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals Justice Spottswood W. Robinson...
...Roosevelt gripped the reading clerk's stand, flipped open his black, loose-leaf schoolboy's notebook. He took a long, steady look at the Congress and the battery of floodlights, and began to read...