Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). O'Brien is involved in the case of a woman who is being tried a second time for the murder of her husband...
Then the Maryland Court of Appeals reversed the murder conviction of a Buddhist named Lidge Schowgurow, who successfully argued that he had been denied equal protection of the laws while on trial for killing his wife His jurors, he noted, had to swear to do their duty "in the presence of Almighty God." Since Buddhists do not believe in God, members of his faith were theoretically excluded from the jury. Though no Buddhists were even considered for his jury, the court up held Schowgurow-and voided all such jury oaths in Maryland...
...same appetizing flavors may be found in Mr. Sloane, which comes to Broadway from London's West End. A tall blond young murderer takes lodgings with a middle-aged nymphomaniacal landlady. With lubricous zeal, she and her homosexual brother compete for the lodger's favors. When this impetuous tenant kills cranky old "Dadda," both brother and sister concoct a cover-up story about their father's murder and sign an agreement to share the killer's company...
...sacrifice not to some mechanical failure but to the bitterness and frustration that is never far beneath the surface among Africans in the land of apartheid. As the scratched and bloodied survivors tumbled from the wreckage, one black shouted: "It's the Europeans who planned this murder of our brothers." The first white man to come to the aid of the wounded-signalman Walter Hartslief, 25, who ran to the scene from his trackside station-was surrounded by the furious mob, beaten, knifed and trampled to death in the dust...
...Courier reporters and stringers, who include Negro boys as young as 15, have suffered the expected difficulties: threats, a beating, a harrowing 100-m.p.h. chase on the highway. But often the white community can be helpful. In Lowndes County, where Tom Coleman was acquitted of the murder of the Rev. Jonathan Daniels, Coleman's sister, county superintendent of schools, cheerfully briefs the Courier on school affairs...