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...Most of the people I know are for capital punishment," declared Paula Huffman, 21, a Sam Houston State University senior at the deathwatch. "And so am I. Definitely." Nevertheless, when the moment arrived, just after midnight, she and the rest of her shivering, smiling chums suddenly turned quiet and grave...
...savior. Most of the country followed her progress on television as the Prime Minister jounced along rutted roads in Civil Commissioner Sir Rex Hunt's maroon London taxi; accepted pink roses and wild cheers from the islanders; stood, head bowed, at the simple white cross marking the grave of Paratrooper Lieut. Colonel H. Jones, whose courage won him the Victoria Cross; and placed flowers by the 14 graves overlooking San Carlos Bay, where British troops first stormed ashore...
...protectionism: Protectionism motivated by short-range selfish interests will only cause a chain reaction of protective measures. This creates the grave danger of accelerating the recession into a 1930s-like depression. If that happens, Japan is the country with the most to lose. Therefore, by employing every means at our disposal, we must shatter this tide of protectionism and guard free trade. If there is a depression, the country that will be the most pleased will be the Soviet Union...
Marilyn Monroe occupies an unquiet grave. The 20th anniversary of her death has set off a worldwide orgy of necrolatry. While she continues to inspire plays, books and lyrics, the beautiful blond whom Norman Mailer called "the sweet angel of sex" is being all but drowned in a flood of tacky tribute. Boutiques and stores from San Francisco to Rome have found an apparently inexhaustible market for such mementos as life-size cardboard stand-ups, 3-D posters, calendars, bed sheets, shopping bags, masks, hot-water bottles ("Take me to bed. I will keep you warm"), piggy banks, pepper shakers...
...more militant Blacks and those who were members of store-front Negro churches and isolated political organizations. Malcolm X, seeing Black history as a record of conflict between the races, used a dramatic language to portray a battle in order to get the Blacks to be aware of their grave situation. He thought their very lives were in danger...