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...legislature's reaction to Brown's plea was icy. Speaking the mood of hostile lawmakers. Republican Assemblyman Bruce F. Sumner charged that Democrat Brown had "ducked his responsibility," put the legislature "in the unfair position of being a court of last resort for Chessman." Brown's bill, which would mean life imprisonment for Chessman and 21 others condemned (including one woman), was sent to the senate judiciary committee. Said Chairman Edwin J. Regan, a Democrat, who scheduled a hearing this week: "I would think that if the bill were not reported out by the committee, that would...
...Peking. The Soviet leader attended a New Delhi ceremony at which his government extended $378 million credits to the Indians, and later he gave $250 million in low-interest loans to Indonesia. In Djakarta, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko did not insist that the final communiqué include the usual plea for Red China's admission to the U.N., the Indonesians having called the suggestion "inopportune"* ; Peking has been giving them a bad time over their law curbing overseas Chinese traders. And in Calcutta, where Khrushchev stopped over to meet Nehru and Burma's Prime Minister-designate...
...Plea. Even in Germany, many doubted Strauss's denial that he was after missile and air training bases in Spain. (His story was that all he wanted was a few supply and medical depots.) Pointing out that the 1954 treaty, which forbids West Germany to manufacture atomic, bacteriological or chemical weapons, applies only to "the territory of the Federal Republic," the London Times unhappily noted: "Indeed, the West Germans could if they wished manufacture rockets and atomic warheads in Spain." Others were quick to remember the 1920s, when Germany's democratic Weimar Republic secretly accepted a Soviet offer...
Harvard's crusty President (1909-33) Abbott Lawrence Lowell was a Ph.D. who developed an early aversion to the Ph.D. factory system. In a famed plea that scholars should be judged by deeds and not by degrees, he wrote: "We have developed into a mass production of mediocrity." A few years before retiring, Lowell began agitating for a more creative path into teaching ("to entice and fructify imagination"). It turned into Harvard's freewheeling Society of Fellows-a unique experiment in U.S. education...
...Titan had finally fired successfully, but the Atlas "could fly as far, hit as accurately and carry as much weight as the Titan. The only difference is that the Atlas is 1½ years ahead and is doing it now." Backing up the Strategic Air Command's plea for an airborne SAC alert, he said: "Any person without bias-that is, not trying to sell missiles or balance the budget-has got to assume that the President is taking a dangerous, dangerous gamble with our national survival. I don't think he has the right...