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Under Jones, the Mississippi convict's lot became better-much better. Out went the lash-long known as "Black Annie." Jones permitted Parchman's prisoners to receive their wives in cottages on conjugal visits. He organized a hillbilly band to amuse his wards. He broadened an understandably popular travel-and-furlough program for trustworthy prisoners. There were, of course, some setbacks. Example: a convicted murderer returned on furlough to his home town, and his wife asked local authorities to keep her in jail until her husband went back to Parchman...
PHILADELPHIA Antitrust Lawyer William L. Maher, 52, who helped convict 29 electrical companies of price fixing, will become officer of one of the convicted firms, Chicago Joslyn Manufacturing & Supply Co. His duties: to guide Joslyn's antitrust compliance program...
Combining Greek tragedy and judicial farce, a federal court jury last week re-enacted for a Baltimore television audience just how it had decided to convict a man of murder and kidnaping...
...Jewish problem"--ration and extermination was captured May 11 in Aries by "volunteers", and to Israel before either Is Argentine government of of his where abouts, be tried publicly, and is ex plead superior orders; edguesses predict that the of evidence accumulated last 15 years will be suf convict...
Quietly the priest begins to tell him the story of the thief on the cross, of how he believed in Christ, of how Christ loved him and promised him that in death he would find eternal life-"And he was a convict just like you." Suddenly, wonderfully, a new dimension of reality surrounds and penetrates the scene: the dimension of divine love. Like an impossible hope it flickers in his heart. In this hope the condemned man and his audience are so intensely interfused and mutually identified -thanks to the bone-honest, heartfelt playing of Dullea and Murray-that...