Word: commitments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said he "sees no harm in a five year trial period." (In the last seven years the death penalty has never been carried out.) "Almost invariably states without capital punishment have lower rates of murder," he said, "but there are thousands of variable factors that cause a person to commit murder...
...this series of rebellious offshoot, "i.e., the Cambridge Review," was started last year by Leo Raditsa, who had become irritated by the apathy toward new ideas which prevailed in the Advocate. Raditsa feels that none of its members will assume any intellectual "responsibility," that is, the board will commit itself to no opinion nor does it attempt to find what is really new in intellectual and literary currents. Thus, by sticking exclusively to its present aim--to develop undergraduate craftsmen--the Advocate has shirked its responsibility as a publication...
...burgermeister isn't too happy with the work of his predecessors. "I'm going to do more than's been done around here in the last ten years," he vowed, but would not commit himself as to exactly what he is going to do. On the whole, Sullivan thinks the University and the City "get along pretty well," but he'd be happier if the College would ban students' cars. Eddie isn't too happy about expansion either. "Pretty soon there won't be any taxable property left in this city if Harvard keeps buying it up. If they want...
...friend said Auerbach expressed interest but declined to commit himself until the end of the NBA season...
Quiz Kid. In Burnaby, B.C., charged with intent to commit a crime after he was caught sitting in his car in front of a bank with the plates covered and the motor running, John A. Martin, 50, explained to police: he wore dark glasses because he suffered from snow blindness, wore a handkerchief-mask to protect his throat, had a loaded .22 rifle in the car because he had been robbed of $300 three weeks before...