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...cause is steadily gaining converts among U.S. Governors, such as Tennes see's Frank G. Clement, whose recent plea for abolition ("Thou shalt not kill") lost by only one vote in the state legislature. Hurrying to Death Row, Clement immediately commuted the sentences of five condemned Negroes to 99 years. Abolition lost in Indiana this month only because the last-minute murder of three policemen persuaded the Governor to veto it. Last week it was being discussed by the legislatures in Illinois, Vermont and New York, where an influential bipartisan commission called execution "an act of supreme violence...
Purim holiday, angry pickets outside the Knesset were in no festive mood as they jostled police and waved placards denouncing the government motion. But for all the emotionalism, in the end Eshkol's plea for wise hearts-along with party discipline-prevailed; by a vote of 66 to 29, with 10 abstentions, the Knesset voted to establish diplomatic ties with West Germany...
...meeting before the march, a Harvard student gave "an admirably reasoned plea," Davis said, not to go against the Federal government. Davis complimented him on it, but, deciding to go ahead anyway, told him, "you're 25; you've only waited 25 years for them to go. I've been waiting 43 years...
...Cabinet Room ceremony, he received a report from the President's Council on Aging, made a vigorous off-the-cuff plea for passage of his medicare bill. Recalling that he and John Kennedy talked about medicare in almost every state in the 1960 campaign, Johnson said that there had been "deafening applause" every time it was mentioned. "So make no mistake about it," he said. "The people are ahead of us in this field. They want this program. They will support this program. They are going to have this program. I think that before the leaves turn brown...
...plea declared that while schools like Harvard, Columbia and Yale could draw on nearly unlimited local supplies of women, "Princeton, which enjoys none of the social or geographical privileges and accidents of the other Ivy League schools, has a need for more varied entertainment opportunities." Apparently, the Council felt the extra three hours of parietals weekly would fill this...