Word: plea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the trial of Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kennedy was subject to pressure from both sides. First the prosecution asked the Senator what his family would think if Sirhan were allowed to make a negotiated plea of guilty, thus avoiding the death penalty. Ted responded that the family had no position. Then the defense counsel tried to get Kennedy to petition the jury to reject the death penalty. Again he demurred...
Fine Longhand. Last week the Senator made his move. Sirhan's jury had voted the death penalty on April 23, and Superior Court Judge Herbert V. Walker was considering a motion to reduce the sentence. Kennedy drafted a plea for mercy in his fine longhand. He sent copies to Ethel, Sisters Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, and his mother, Rose. They had discussed the matter before; all approved the text. Then Ted sent his original copy to Judge Walker. "My brother was a man of love and sentiment and compassion," he wrote. "He would not have wanted his death...
FORTY CARATS, with Julie Harris as a middle-aged divorcee wooed and won by a lad barely half her age, while her daughter succumbs to a man of 45, enters a plausible plea for a single standard of judgment on age disparity in marriage...
FORTY CARATS, with Julie Harris as a middle-aged divorcee wooed and won by a lad nearly half her age, enters a sane and plausible plea for a single standard of judgment on age disparity in marriage...
...plea is that in the interest of our national well-being you retain faith in the vast majority of our young people and permit the institutions which exist to foster their education to get on with their very difficult task in ways which will seem to them appropriate, and which alone, I believe, can be counted on to be productive...