Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STAGE 67 (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Confession" details 32 shattering hours in the lives of Police Detective Hammond (Arthur Kennedy) and Carl Boyer (Brandon de Wilde) a college student who is charged with the murder of his sweetheart when he survives their suicide pact...
...promised to be a considerably muted campaign. Before Valerie's murder, both candidates had been trading sharp-personal blows. Percy had labeled Douglas "a human power failure," while the Senator, who was trailing his opponent, had just begun to hit at Percy as an opportunist who had equivocated on open housing and Barry Goldwater. The tone of the race from now on was suggested by Percy last week: "It is essential that the critical problems and great opportunities facing our people be thoughtfully explored...
Whether a new prosecutor will still press for the death penalty is problematical. There was talk of a possible deal that would permit Ruby to plead guilty to the lesser charge of murder without malice and a maximum five-year sentence-with the years he has spent in jail to count as time served...
...also gather its audience into a cohesive whole with a sureness that is unmatched in any other area of communications. By its coverage of the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, TV news demonstrated its tireless capability and versatility. For millions upon millions, the President's funeral became a heart-moving personal experience. "Television held the country together over the transition period in a unique way and helped preserve the whole democratic process," says onetime FCC Chairman Newton Minow, who exempts TV news from his charge that the medium is a "vast wasteland...
...George C. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, who last week called the A.B.A. proposals "the most dangerous threat to American ideals of free speech and press since the days of Joe McCarthy." Edwards, who once voted to reverse Dr. Sam Sheppard's murder conviction in an opinion that foreshadowed the recent Supreme Court decision in the Sheppard case, is mainly worried that pretrial controls will leave defense lawyers "muzzled" and "prosecutions corrupted against the public interest." The real pressure, says Edwards, should be on trial judges to "make full use of the tools...