Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week President Johnson played the most gracious sort of national host to Italy's visiting Premier Aldo Moro. He afforded Moro the rare privilege of attending a U.S. Cabinet meeting. He showered Moro with gifts-including a 19th century Sheraton gilt mirror, a pen stand with two gold pens, a matching Accutron desk clock, a photograph of Italy taken from U.S. satellite Tiros IX, a stained-glass cross, a blue nylon sleeping bag for a Moro daughter, and a Texas cowboy costume for Moro...
...Americans were dead. Embassy Stenographer Barbara Robbins, 21, who had come to Saigon from Denver six months before, died at her desk, a ballpoint pen still clutched in her hand. Navy Storekeeper 2/C Manolito W. Castillo, 26, a clerk at the embassy, was killed in the doorway of the building when the bomb exploded. Three Saigon policemen were blown to bits. In all, 22 persons, most of them innocent Vietnamese pedestrians, were killed, and 190 were hurt. The motor-scooter driver had raced out of the blast area, was shot twice and arrested by pursuing police. He claimed...
Pathos in a Line. Other Peanuts characters pop up from time to time. Lucy has several fuss-budget understudies: Patty, Sally, Violet and Frieda. Pig-Pen is a "human soil bank" who raises a cloud of dust on a perfectly clean street and passes out gumdrops that are invariably black. Mop-haired Schroeder is always banging out Beethoven on the piano or gazing soulfully at a bust of the master ("I picked Beethoven," says Schulz, "because he is sort of pompous and grandiose. I like Brahms better"). Lucy is in love with Schroeder, but he is too busy with Beethoven...
...middle-class Jewish beatniks from The Bronx hop on their motor scooters, Jenny and Couchette, and head west for San Francisco. But 25-year-old Novelist Beagle, who actually made this trip with a friend two years ago, recounts it with the special magic of the born troubadour. His pen is as agile as his eye, whether summing up Las Vegas in a phrase ("never meant to be seen by day") or invoking the excitement of cross-country scootering: "Jenny and Couchette slide in and out among the cars like moonlight on railroad tracks." An enchanted journey to "the kind...
...Facto Abolition. For all the current abolitionist enthusiasm, the death pen alty has in fact been dying for some time. The country's murder rate is 40% less than it was in the 1930s, and more murderers are being committed to men tal institutions. Modern penology has swung from retaliation to rehabilitation, and paroled murderers rarely murder again. Even states empowered to execute are loath to do so. While rejecting abolition, Massachusetts has not executed anyone since 1947. New Hampshire has put no one to death since 1939. According to the most recent Gallup poll, only 45% of Americans...