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Eight fearless men in blue captured and killed last night a dangerous escapee from the Harvard Yard. The culprit was shot to death at 11:58 p.m. behind Cambridge Savings on Holyoke...
Before passing sentence, Mr. Justice Havers made it clear who he thought was the real culprit of the case. "It may well be that you came under the influence of Lord Russell, who is certainly old enough to know better than to incite young people to break the laws of this country." Then he meted out the stiffest sentences ever given in Britain for a civil disobedience case: one year in prison for the sole woman defendant, 18 months for each of the five...
...President Romulo Betancourt in June 1960 (see following story). "I do not deny that the reprehensible act that almost cost the life of one of the leaders of Western civilization deserved sanction. But it is not fair that the punishment should continue after the death of the culprit." He excused his countrymen for being "half-crazed after three decades of terror," and then pleaded for an end to the punitive economic sanctions imposed against his country by the Organization of American States last year...
...Schwartz hopes to find evidence that contacts of the Niles victims have developed immunity to the disease. He believes that this will be shown if there are no more cases in the Niles community for four or five years. Investigation might also show that some other disease is the culprit, by making children more susceptible to acute leukemia, or by triggering its onset...
...small minority dedicated to the 'rag'--the student practical joke. In the past six years, 'raggers' have tethered a goat on Merton Chapel roof, driven an Austin down a Botany Department corridor, rolled a barrel into a graduate student maternity ward at 2 a.m. (the authorities gave the culprit a second chance and he was expelled a year later for setting fire to a dean's mattress), shot and barbecued a member of the Magdalen College deer-park, and painted new pedestrian crosswalks in improbable places at the dead of night. Shortly after the last incident, the 'raggers' excelled themselves...