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Such reasoning did not impress Harrison, who decided that Morris had been let off with too light a rap. Harrison made his view plain in no fewer than six different columns. He contrasted the Morris trial with a similar manslaughter case in which a car driven by a drunken New Mexican construction la borer, Elirio Trujillo, rammed another car, killing three people. Tried before another judge, Trujillo got one to five years in prison. But Harrison failed to mention that while Morris was a first offender, Trujillo had been arrested twice on drunken-driving charges, and had escaped from jail...
...begged in front of last week's mass meeting. He took up nearly an hour with the heart-rending story of his long-time underground friendship for the good colored people of Canton. The committee has decided to keep the squeeze on all of them for a while--to impress them with the latent power of the Negro community ... All of their efforts at retaliation so far have been clumsy and amateurish, but the state legislature has just passed a bill making it easy for "municipalities to cooperate in the suppression of riots and civil disturbances." We may well have...
...appeared eager to impress on his guests that he was not just a saber rattler. To establish his superior knowledge of French letters, the ex-librarian told his stunned interlocutors that he had read "Diderot and all your Encyclopedists. I've even read that 18th century author who wrote that remarkable book, The Mechanical Man." None of Mao's guests knew what book he was talking about, and they were too polite to ask.* "Above all," Mao said, "I'm an admirer of Napoleon. There isn't one of his works I don't know...
...Pakistani side of the cease-fire line. India maintained that a Pakistani raiding party slipped across the line, ambushed an Indian patrol, and threw the bodies of its victims into a river. In New Delhi, a government official bitterly declared that the Pakistanis probably staged the incident to impress India's other mortal enemy, Red China, whose Premier, Chou Enlai, had been visiting Pakistan. Adding fuel to the flames last week, Chou pledged Red China's support of Pakistan on the Kashmir question...
...Crippen emerges as one of those improbable figures that hold the headlines of the British penny-dreadful press. He is a poor man's pill-pusher, a sallow runt with "codfish eyes" and a large compensatory mustache, which doesn't impress his wife. "You're not a man!" she hoots at him. "Go clean the lodger's boots!" And while her husband cleans the lodger's boots, she nibbles the lodger's ear. After several years of playing the cuckold, creepy little Crippen dares at last to play the man-with a pretty young...