Word: sam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college senior who considers Viet Nam "so foreign" and "so remote" is confused about the realities of world politics. It is in Southeast Asia that the U.S. is preparing its answer to the Chinese Communist form of aggression. How can a student begrudge Uncle Sam two years of his life after having spent 20 years enjoying all the American freedoms, and with the reasonable expectation of 40 more years of enjoyment after his military obligation is complete? I do not think it unreasonable that the new car, career and family should wait a couple of years. If the draft...
COLOR ME BARBRA (Columbia). Carpers have claimed that the second Streisand TV special was overproduced, but it would take a real Barbraphobe to fault this album of songs from the show. From the soft-shoe shuffle of Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long to Non, C'Est Rien, Streisand's first venture into French, this record extends the image...
That Was That. Ever-acquisitive Publisher Sam Newhouse made an offer. Word got out that the Los Angeles Times's Otis Chandler also tried to get in on the deal. There was even talk that the Hearst chain and Scripps-Howard were interested. All this got back to Creekmore, a cantankerous and single-minded individual who is known to feel that the Chronicle should remain a locally owned enterprise. If Houstonite Mecom was going to sell it, then Creekmore did not want to sell it to Mecom...
...Cleveland newspapers so inflame Dr. Sam Sheppard's jurors that he was wrongly convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death? No one has ever proved that the press actually swayed the jurors who found the osteopath guilty in 1954 and sent him to prison for life. But last week, upholding Sheppard's bid for habeas corpus, the Supreme Court said that "inherently prejudicial publicity" was proof enough that he "did not receive a fair trial consistent with the due process clause of the 14th Amendment." In an 8-to-1 decision that forced Ohio to promptly retry...
...forcibly ejected by the coroner, "who received cheers, hugs and kisses from ladies in the audience," then publicly questioned the uncounseled Sheppard for 5½ hours about his sex life in and out of marriage. Impatient that Sheppard was still not indicted, the Press blared: WHY ISN'T SAM SHEPPARD IN JAIL? QUIT STALLING, BRING...