Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Thrush orders a bunch of Thrushlet juvenile delinquents to murder Mr. Waverly...
...more surprising of the verdicts-and the more hopeful for the survival of the local jury system-came in Anniston. After nine hours of deliberation, the jurors found Hubert Damon Strange, 23, guilty of second-degree murder and gave him a ten-year prison sentence. Two alleged accomplices, Johnny Ira DeFries, 25, and Lewis Blevins, 26, are still to be tried. The case was prosecuted by local authorities, with some help from...
...Mistake. Strange, a gas-station attendant with an arrest record for assault and weapons offenses, was accused of being the trigger man in the July 15 murder of Willie Brewster, 38, a Negro. Brewster belonged to no civil rights organizations, walked no picket lines, enjoyed a reputation as a hardworking family man who wasn't even "uppity." His mistake was to be caught driving home from work with three friends an hour after the Anniston courthouse had been the scene of a hate rally by the National States Rights Party. Party leaders had openly preached violence...
Nonetheless, Calhoun County Solicitor Clarence Williams had no open-and-shut case for the prosecution. He had no eyewitness. He had no murder weapon in court. His case rested primarily on the testimony of Jimmie Glenn Knight, 28, a smalltime hoodlum who by his own admission had turned in his buddies to collect a reward of $20,000 raised by Calhoun County citizens and $1,000 contributed by Governor George Wallace. A month had passed before Knight, in jail on burglary and grand larceny charges, decided to testify for the prosecution...
Holy Cross doesn't have enough height to murder Harvard under the boards. Their center is 6-5 John Sullivan, a good rebounder who averaged a big 2.9 points per game last season. The forwards are Richie Murphy and Greg Hochstein, both 6-4, who averaged 12.3 and 9.5 respectively last year. Ralph Willard (6-3) and sophomore Jimmy O'Brien, most valuable player in the Massachusetts Catholic Tournament two years ago, looks like a very good prospect...