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For long anxious months, the 83 in mates of death row at California's San Quentin prison waited for the State Supreme Court to rule upon the appeals of Frederick Saterfield and Robert Page Anderson. Both convicted murderers were challenging the constitutionality of the death penalty, and they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sentences: Capital Punishment Is Constitutional | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

California's condemned men (and one woman), all of whom enjoyed a 17-month stay of execution while the cases were being decided, are sure to use the Anderson-Saterfield ruling for new petitions of their own. Under last week's decision, those who cannot afford lawyers are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sentences: Capital Punishment Is Constitutional | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

On paper, Dear World, the musical prepping in Boston for its New York debut, has a promising premise, one that could even be exciting in the execution: an adaptation of Jean Giraudoux's Madwoman of Chaillot with Angela Lansbury as the title character. On stage, though, it's a failure...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Dear World | 11/16/1968 | See Source »

There is a gloomy mood in South east Asia these days that has nothing to do with the problems of Viet Nam. The trouble has to do with family quarrels in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The group is a promising experiment in political and economic cooperation, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Family Quarrels | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

The remaining flaws of this production are minor, and exclusively on the side of execution rather than conception. The chorus blocking, for instance, still needs work, as do several of the long speeches, but one has every right to expect these problems will soon be corrected.

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: The Bacchae | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

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