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...Allen's release. Fort Worth gave overdue recognition to the pinball machine problem that he-and others-had tilted at. The city council voted to outlaw the machines. Said Allen jubilantly: "The town is closed tight...
...Javits moved for an injunction against the company for fraudulent practices, Silver Shield, a Delaware corporation, announced that it would "go out of business in New York," but will continue in other states. Same week, the New York and Georgia state legislatures approved bills to outlaw all proraters, thus following the lead of Massachusetts, Maine, and Pennsylvania. (Two more -Minnesota and Wisconsin-have tough regulatory laws...
...clemency was not made until 1835, when these 200 mortal crimes were cut to four -high treason, murder, piracy, and setting fire to the royal dockyards and arsenals. In practice, since 1861 the death penalty in peacetime has been invoked only for murder. But not until 1868 did Britain outlaw public executions...
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...southern Italy. But bandits, though they make news nearly every week, aren't what they used to be-and Musolino's reputation survives in ballads still sung. A young woodcutter of Aspromonte, a craggy region near the toe of the Italian boot, Musolino, like Robin Hood, turned outlaw first (so it was said) when he was falsely accused of attempted murder. Two years later, he escaped from jail, and for the next three years conducted his own roughhewn version of justice...