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...Enmund did not kill or intend to kill," said Justice Byron White for the majority. "We have the abiding conviction that the death penalty ... is an excessive penalty for the robber who, as such, does not take human life." The ruling pleased opponents of capital punishment, though it will probably not affect more than a handful of the 1,038 inmates now on the nation's death rows...
...later chided the New York-based Kristol for not knowing-as those who live in Washington quick ly learn - which invitations to avoid. Will steers clear of conservative groupies and styles himself a Tory- which is fine if he remembers that Tory originally referred to an outlaw Irish highway robber...
...KAHN, JR. '37 seems to peer through The New Yorker logo's snooty and nostalgic lorgnette at sooty skyscrapers. To Kahn, the late multimillionaire Jock Whitney "epitomized, in a world of increasing egalitarianism, the vanishing patrician. "The era of the robber barons, that period of freewheeling economic exploitation that made the Whitneys rich, is over, says Kahn--wistfully, it seems. Hamburger sales under gold plastic arches make tycoons now. The world is a Kroc...
...Angels' effort to forge a national network has had mixed success. In New Orleans Angels have nabbed a knife-wielding robber with a record of 57 previous arrests and a pickpocket who turned out to be a murder suspect wanted by police. In other cities, their impact is not so clearly evident. A police spokesman in Pasadena, assessing their performance in patrolling the Tournament of Roses Parade, summed up the verdict of many observers: "No runs, no hits and no errors." In Boston the Angels predicted that there would be 250 volunteers on patrol...
Actor Paul Newman, a founder of Energy Action, a consumer group, said in Washington last week that the whole operation makes "the railroad robber barons look like cheap stuff." Ralph Nader claimed that consumers were being forced to pay for the pipeline without having a say in management...