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Capital punishment, said California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown in a 1,500-word special message to the state legislature last week, is "a gross failure," primarily inflicted "upon the weak, the poor, the ignorant and against racial minorities. Beyond its horror and incivility, it has neither protected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Court of Last Resort | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

Progressive Conservative. Ecuador's new President is a well-groomed, keen-minded lawyer who at 33 headed his nation's delegation to the United Nations founding conference at San Francisco. Later he served as Public Works Minister, Senator, Interior Minister.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Minority President | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Last week, a keen-minded Harvard physician offered the most convincing explanation yet of mongolism. It seems, said Dr. Theodore H. Ingalls at the New York Academy of Medicine, to be the result of an injury or shock to the fetus at about the eighth week of pregnancy. This does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mice, Men & Mongolism | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

The Labor government had not yet dared to tell Britons what they faced. Sir Stafford Cripps, by proposing a wage freeze (TIME, Feb 16), had led Labor up to one big hurdle. But could the keen-minded jockey make the massive, stubborn trades union movement take even this first unpleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Too Bloody Awful | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

The man Britain chose to replace him was lean, ascetic Sir Oliver Shewell Franks, 43, a philosopher-turned-economist who was born in the year that Inverchapel first headed into the foreign service. No conventional diplomat, Sir Oliver is one of the little group of keen-minded young Oxford dons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Accent on Facts | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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