Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year 331 prisoners lingered on death rows across the country, but few if any of them are likely to join the 3,856 Americans (including 32 women) executed since 1930. The Federal Government has carried out only one execution in ten years, now has only one pending (Nebraska Bank Robber-Murderer Duane E. Pope). Says Michigan's Senator Philip A. Hart, sponsor of a bill to abolish capital punishment for federal crimes: "The death penalty is a symbol of a dying order of vengeance...
...months following the G.O.P.'s election victories last November. Nonetheless, his backers came out in the open to promote the notion that Nixon, a dedicated party performer of proven ability, was preferable to the unknown quantity that Romney continues to be. On the eve of the G.O.P. meeting, Nebraska's Fred Seaton, Interior Secretary under President Eisenhower, sent letters to all committeemen and state chairmen eulogizing Nixon as "the single Republican with the stature, the requisite abilities and the qualities of leadership essential to unite us and maintain our current momentum." More discreetly, Nixon fanciers were hard...
...includes Ohio's James Rhodes, Pennsylvania's Raymond Shafer, either Percy or Everett Dirksen in Illinois, Rockefeller or Jacob Javits in New York. Romney strategists, realizing that their candidate has to build first-ballot strength in the primaries, are planning intensive campaigns in four states: New Hampshire, Nebraska, Oregon and Wisconsin...
SUGAR BOWL (NBC, 1:45 p.m.). Alabama v. Nebraska, from New Orleans...
...list of 275 nominees, Christ-Janer represents something of a break with the school's presidential tradition. All five of his predecessors were both Methodist ministers and teetotalers; the son of a Nebraska Lutheran schoolteacher, Christ-Janer was a Presbyterian layman before becoming a Methodist-and he does take a social drink now and then. He majored in Greek at Minnesota's Carleton College, has a law degree from the University of Chicago as well as one in divinity from Yale...