Word: patly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause a ripple of interest beyond the California state line. Yet, in the days preceding the reprieve, concern for the fate of Caryl Chessman had swept itself into a passionate whirlwind that whipped around the globe, gathered up pleas for clemency and dumped them in an overwhelming cascade on Pat Brown's shoulders...
...turned them down, 4-3. Under California's law, the Governor may not issue a pardon or commutation of sentence for a two-time loser like Chessman over an adverse Supreme Court decision-but he can still give a reprieve. At the same time, California precedent holds that Pat Brown, had he wanted to grant clemency, could properly have so notified the court and probably swayed its decision...
...left Sacramento besieged, bothered and bewildered. His mail, once 10 to 1 in favor of saving Chessman, had turned 3 to 1 in denunciation of the Governor himself. It would surely grow worse in the next 60 days, for, though Caryl Chessman had sown the wind, Pat Brown was reaping the whirlwind...
...waves of muscular young men converged on her, someone called out: "Can you breathe?" Breathing hard, the Second Lady of the Land nodded, finally succeeded, by holding her pen at chin level, in writing her autograph for an eager French athlete. "I'm getting squashed," admitted Pat Nixon, "but it's all right...
Three feet away, her husband, Vice President Richard Nixon, proudly recited his few Russian phrases to a beaming blonde in a bright blue ski suit. "Pat," he called over his shoulder, "come here and talk to this girl. She's from the Urals." For a moment the three stood swaying and talking together in the midst of the crowd, recalling the Nixon visit last summer to the Soviet Union. Then a Japanese skier crowded in, said he was from "the Northern Islands." "I've been there." said Dick Nixon. Between autographs and greetings, Pat gratefully gulped down most...