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Bygones. In Wethersfield, Conn., appearing before the State Pardons Board to plead for release from the State Farm for Women, Inmate Mrs. Florence Pinkney explained that she was sorry she had shot and killed her husband, promised: "It won't happen again...
...Matter of Opinion. Other Southern states sent envoys to plead delay. Florida's Attorney General Richard Ervin quoted Isaiah: "He that believeth, shall not make haste." North Carolina's Assistant Attorney General Beverly Lake referred to an old case. "This court," said he, "allowed the city of New York four years ... to decide what to do with its garbage." Texas' Attorney General John Ben Shepperd drew a laugh by citing a public-opinion poll, which showed that 45% of sampled Texans are dead set on keeping segregation, only 14% favor desegregation. The same polling agency, said Shepperd...
McMorrow said he definitely favored some kind of legislation which would limit the rights of teachers who employ the fifth amendment. "Everyone has the right to plead the fifth amendment," he claimed, "but not everyone has the right to teach...
...senator cannot plead ignorance of the import of the document," Galbraith said. "I wired him of its nature before the show was filmed." Galbraith noted that Capehart had not only quoted the pamphlet out of Context, but had omitted qualifying phrases from the text...
...rehearsal, or "Barbaric! Make it barbaric!" "Come on," he once implored the cellos, trying to get them in the mood for Salome's final scene. "I want you to play like a bunch of sluts." At a recent rehearsal with Violinist Nathan Milstein, Katims called a halt to plead with the musicians: "Make it sparkle. Like-not like champagne, I've used that one too often ..." Milstein leaned over to whisper in his ear, and Katims' face lit up. "That's it." he cried, "like Seven...