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Ever since 1789 when Joseph-Ignace Guillotin advocated swift and painless decapitation as a way to put people to death, the guillotine, designed by others, has served as a uniquely French form of capital punishment. During the French Revolution hundreds of heads were lopped off, and the crowds came early to get a good view of such victims as Danton and Robespierre. In all, the guillotine was used some 4,600 times. Public executions were banned in 1939. In the past decade, the blade fell only six times, the most recent in Sept. 1977 when Hamida Djandoubi was dispatched...
More and more people seem to recognize that exorcising inflation can be neither instant nor painless. Says Paul Sullivan, who owns a sportswear manufacturing firm in Methuen, Mass.: "The steps that the President is taking are necessary. It may be tough now, but we can weather it." Says James Graham, a high school teacher in North Little Rock, Ark.: "People are going to have to bite the bullet now, or there isn't going to be any bullet to bite in ten years...
...script is a farrago of styles, all of them challenging, from the evil magician's bloated Miltonian opening speech to the Scholar Wu's delicate (and suitably alcoholic) Eastern lyricism in a poem called "Kite Fight," which he recites while being whipped. (The scene is stylized and relatively painless, the Scolar Wu seeming to leave his body far behind, the onlookers emitting the sound of the lash.) Our bodies are kites in a kite fight, he says--the kites a long...
...examined in DISCOVER. Success will also require a nation that is far better educated than we are now, a problem addressed in LIFE. We must recover a view of education beyond a certain point, not as a right, but as a privilege. Education must no longer be regarded as painless but as an enterprise in which intelligence, talent, effort and discipline are prized rather than devalued, as they are now. Examining the elusive topic of the country's moral fiber, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED looks at competition in America and its importance not only in sports but in all areas of life...
...good wage: at the big new A & P in Dixon, four cans of evaporated milk cost 19?; the price of 3 Ibs. of coffee was 49?, and 10 Ibs. of new potatoes went for 23?. For 75?, the Dixon dentists would pull a tooth by the "painless method," or so said their...