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Condemned to die eight months ago for shooting his African houseboy (who had stoned Poole's dogs), Poole became a near martyr in the eyes of many white Kenyans who recalled his services against the Mau Mau, and worried over what would happen to his aging parents and his...
LIKE its wealthy Italian sisters across the mountains, the city of Nice in the 15th and 16th centuries was a place where great fortunes were piled up in the midst of misery. Moneylenders flourished, and when the long-suffering poor finally rose against their masters in 1437, they were brutally...
* Named for Jacob Sverdlov, a leader of 1917's Red Revolution, credited in Soviet history books with having ordered the execution of Czar Nicholas II and his family at Ekaterinburg, later renamed Sverdlovsk (where Pilot Francis Powers' U-2 went down on May 1).
The Sacco-Vanzetti Story (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). The second half of Reginald Rose's two-part play about the famed case concludes with the 1927 execution of the two anarchists.
Nothing since the end of World War II has smeared the U.S.'s name more than Chessman's twelve-year-delayed execution. V. E. RAGONESI Valletta, Malta