Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind that statement is the fact that Texas customs (and lax grand juries) make it easier there than in any other state for a murderer to escape punishment. Of the 136 killings in 1957, only 27 cases went to trial. Only one defendant got the death penalty, and only one a life sentence. The rest got a variety of jail terms-and two of the terms, for five years each, were suspended...
...elected to Turkey's Grand National Assembly at Ataturk's personal order. For 14 years he remained an obscure backbencher who never achieved a committee chairmanship, spent his spare time earning a law degree from the University of Ankara. But, he recalls : "I was a very conscientious Deputy. I went to Parliament early in the morning and was often the last to leave at night. I was trying to learn how the government works from the inside...
Well before opening day, the jury* pared the show down to a grand total of 1,516 works, then passed over most of the better-known names and gave four of the seven $500 painting awards to artists still outside the gallery circuit, tapped lesser-knowns as well for the two $500 sculpture awards. The painting winners: Manhattan's Zygmunt Menkes for his bright Girl with Mirror; San Francisco's Frank Ashley for his lively #12 Adler (see color page): Manhattan's Louis Bouché for his quiet Still Life with Blocks; Westchester County's Edmond...
TENNESSEE GAS Transmission Co., nation's longest pipeline system, will go into manufacturing of solid rocket fuels and solid-propellant rocket engines. It is closing deal to swap $6,000,000 worth of stock for control of Grand Central Rocket Co. of Redlands, Calif., which is building third-stage rocket for Vanguard earth-satellite...
...story after story, Sansom demonstrates his special ability for staging Grand Guignol within the puppet-sized theater of the short story. He can write about the rivalry of two barbers, in Impatience, without giving the reader the feeling that he has just dropped in for a quick shave; the scene in which the barbers take to each other with straight razors evokes the violence of the London slums in a specially horrible way. And On Stony Ground introduces a wistful clerk who has only two window boxes, but each day he buys a packet of seeds; his predicament is comic...