Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sentencing; New York's bail-pioneering Vera Institute of Justice is retraining such people for three months before the judge decides. In California, which leads the U.S. and most of the world in systematic penology, judges give indeterminate sentences, and correction officials then determine the offender's fate according to his well-tested possibilities. In 1966, only 7% of California felons went to prison. Of all state inmates, 20% actually work outside in 80-man forestry crews, saving California millions...
...dialogue sink in, as if Orton had some comment to make on life, instead of mocking all comment on life or death. Orton was a promising young English playwright (Entertaining Mr. Sloane) who was murdered by his friend (Kenneth Halliwell) last August (TIME, Sept. 15). Both his fate and some of his lines suggest that he had looked intimately into the abyss of existence. But Loot is not despairing, and even its shock effects are surprisingly good-natured...
...Novotnyites quickly got the point. When some tried to resign, their subordinates demanded that they be fired instead. That was the fate of Miroslav Pastyrik, chief of the Council of Trade Unions, and Michal Chudik, president of the Slovak National Council...
...royal reprieve, the breakaway government of Prime Minister Ian Smith decided last week that a little mercy was in order. It commuted the death sentences of 44 blacks awaiting execution, including four who were within 40 minutes of hanging, to varying terms of imprisonment. Still awaiting word about their fate are 69 others held in the death row of Salisbury's maximum-security prison. Their number swelled at week's end with the sentencing to death of five Africans convicted of entering Rhodesia with "weapons of war"-a newly created capital offense. The gallows, on the other hand...
...Unlike nature, the American public adores a vacuum," says a character in Weekend. The thesis will certainly be tested by the fate of Gore Vidal's new Broadway comedy about a presidential hopeful. Vidal is capable of springy, sophisticated political humor, as he demonstrated in The Best Man (1960); but this time the jokes are either juvenile or senile. Most of the characters are as appealing as wads of wet Kleenex, and the story line is about as amusing as the Congressional Record...