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The year is 1978. Henny Youngman has lapsed into senility; "Can You Top This?" has gone the way of "Leave It to Beaver," and the Harvard Lampoon has been bought by Larry Flynt, who promises to turn it into a "mostly serious" fundamentalist humor magazine. Rife preprofessionalism, proto-professionalism and...
The miracle chip represents a quantum leap in the technology of mankind, a development that over the past few years has acquired the force and significance associated with the development of hand tools or the discovery of the steam engine. Just as the Industrial Revolution took over an immense range...
DIED. Herbert Kappler, 70, fugitive Nazi war criminal; of intestinal cancer; in Soltau, West Germany. The SS colonel who in 1944 directed the execution of 335 Italian hostages as reprisal for the killing of 33 Nazi occupation police in Rome, Kappler became known as "the Hangman of the Ardeatine Caves...
Many historians hope the papers will shed new light on the circumstances surrounding the conviction and execution--on charges of committing two murders during a bank robbery--of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti some 50 years ago.
Lowell served on the committee appointed by then-Massachusetts Gov. Alvan T. Fuller to review the Sacco-Vanzetti case following the men's execution in 1927.