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Recently, a new development has underlined the need to abolish the death penalty. This is the tendency for capital cases to drag on for years and even decades, until a new class of convict has been created--the permanent resident of Death Row. The surreal horror of this kind of situation should be enough to convince anyone that the death penalty is creating far more suffering than it is preventing...
...lots of merry pranks along the way: "... in Barry Goldwater's home town ... they put a streamer on the bus reading 'A VOTE FOR BARRY IS A VOTE FOR FUN.' And they put American flags up on the bus and Casady drove the bus backwards down the main drag of Phoenix ... The citizens were suitably startled, outraged, delighted, non-plussed." Of course the bus looked like it had been painted by Hieronymus Bosch, a sign in back of the bus said "Caution: Weird Load" and everyone had painted their bodies in various day-glo ways...
Deep in Politics. That struggle is bound to drag the court into more controversy. Right from the start of its new session, it will be deeply mired in politics. High on the docket is a plea from George Wallace, who is asking his favorite scapegoat to put his name on the ballot in Ohio-the only state where he has not made...
Still, it is clear that with a non-Administration man at the head of the Democratic ticket, McGovern would be running far better. "If it weren't for Humphrey's drag on McGovern," said Peter Starvrianos '66, a campaign official, "there's little doubt that the senator would be easily re-elected...
...Sprig of Peace. Democrats with antiwar constituencies feel that Humphrey has no coattails-and might even drag them down. Strategically, their position resembles that of many G.O.P. liberals during Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign. Thus, while Kennedy Operatives Stephen Smith and Theodore Sorensen have endorsed Humphrey, they are expending most of their energy on New York Democrat Paul O'Dwyer's effort to unseat Republican Senator Jacob Javits. When he returned last week from a three-week postconvention holiday on the French Riviera, Gene McCarthy said that he would now devote his efforts to raising funds...