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...bill, which won approval in the Senate by a 20-18 vote last week, would outlaw capital punishment for all crimes in Massachusetts except the murder of prison employee or court officials by persons convicted or waiting trial for homicide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Doherty Says Abolition Bill May Pass | 4/24/1963 | See Source »

...when we were on the verge of a major catastrophe? Where were the demonstrations in our favor? The great so-called revolutionary parties didn't move. They are satellites. Whenever Khrushchev makes a decision, these satellites applaud. When Khrushchev criticizes abstract painting, the satellites here ask me to outlaw abstract art. And I say to them, our enemies are capitalism and imperialism, not abstract painters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Oh, to Punch Khrushchev | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

Williams is now an exile from the United States living in Cuba, and Negroes With Guns is written directly from the experiences that made him into an outlaw. He spent six years working to integrate his home town of Monroe, N.C. where he established for himself, and the rest of the Negro community, the principle of carrying weapons and using them in self defense. In August, 1961 he left the town at threat of death, and a warrant was distributed for his arrest. It is still in the Cambridge Post Office, showing a rather beefy, beard man with a narrow...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Negroes With Guns | 3/16/1963 | See Source »

They were crammed onto the ballots by men who could inscribe the Gettysburg Address on the head of a pin. They were couched in legal jargon that boggled the brain. U.S. voters struggled mightily to decipher and decide upon propositions to outlaw gambling, legalize liquor, install traffic lights, enlarge cities and amend state constitutions. In the hullabaloo over the 1962 election fights, the decisions on these propositions were often ignored. But in many states, what won may turn out to be even more important than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Changing the Rules | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...passed a threeyear, $435 million Administration program to retrain unemployed workers. After an embarrassing filibuster by Democratic Senate liberals, the Administration's plan to set up a private corporation to operate a communications satellite system was approved. After a mild Southern filibuster, Congress approved a constitutional amendment to outlaw poll taxes in federal elections, sent it on its lengthy route toward ratification by the states. With Berlin and Cuba still in the headlines, the Administration got all it really wanted for defense -and more: Congress insisted on authorizing funds the President did not want for development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE 87TH CONGRESS: A BALKY BEAST | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

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