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Died. Culbert Levy Olson, 85, ex-Governor of California and the first Democrat to hold the post since 1894, a wealthy Utah-born New Dealer whose first official act after his election in 1938 was to pardon Labor Organizer Tom Mooney from life imprisonment for the bombing of a 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade, and who was beaten in a re-election bid by his own Republican attorney general. Earl Warren; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
Painting away in jail, Siqueiros seemed to be enjoying the martyrdom of it all. Asked about his chances for a presidential pardon, he took another dig at President López Mateos: "I suppose the President will have to ask the U.S. before he acts...
...refugee camp. Why shouldn't even East Germany look wonderful?" Benkhedda himself, although he distrusts Soviet-policy, has occasionally spouted Red cliches. He has compared Algeria's struggle with France to Latin America's struggle against "North American imperialism." As for Cuba, "the Americans cannot pardon Fidel Castro for having thrown off the yoke of Yankee trusts and monopolies." If the F.L.N. pushes its promised land reforms and its collective approach to the task of. rebuilding and industrializing the country, independent Algeria will demand of its people the kind of discipline and sacrifices that only a Communist...
Reinhold Niebuhr, visiting professor of Theology, is a principal signer of a petition asking President Kennedy to pardon Junius Scales, a former North Carolina Communist serving a six-year prison sentence for violation of the Smith...
South Carolina's Democratic Senator J. Strom Thurmond looked across the witness table at Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, and asked: "What is the soh'ce of yo' policy?" Sylvester, who is from Montclair, N.J., was puzzled: "I beg your pardon?" Repeated Thurmond: "What is the soh'ce?" "The what?" "The soh'ce-s-o-u-r-c-e." "Oh, source," "Yes, soh'ce. Ah speak with a Southern accent...