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...good shoemaker" and the "poor fish peddler" who were executed in 1927 after a bitter, seven-year battle in court, in the press and in many minds, keep agitating American imaginations. Composer Marc Blitzstein is writing an opera about them, and an off-Broadway producer is planning a musical. This week NBC presents the second installment of its two-part Sacco-Vanzetti Story, billed as a "dramatic interpretation of the much-disputed case." Taken together, the two taped installments provide two absorbing hours, somewhat marred by overly insistent pleading...
When Kenyatta, accused of fostering Mau Mau, was sent to serve a seven-year prison term in the Northern Frontier...
...Soviet armed forces make up the biggest labor pool left in Russia, and at long last Nikita Khrushchev is tapping it to relieve the tight manpower shortage created by his seven-year plan. Last January, jauntily telling the world that Russia's missile lead was so great it could afford to disarm, Khrushchev announced a 1,200,000 cut in the number of men in uniform. Last week his Defense Minister, in a major policy statement, hinted at a further release of military manpower to farms and factories. "Our government and the party Central Committee," wrote Marshal Rodion Malinovsky...
...making public the results of the seven-year study, Mayor Robert F. Wagner hailed the Gluecks' work as of "tremendous significance for the future of delinquency prevention...
...price despite his skill as a battler (brain concussion, ripped cartilages in both knees, "maybe 300, probably more, stitches on my face"). The proud Rocket is balefully intent on revenge, and the record will likely shuttle back and forth for the rest of the season. But with a seven-year age advantage on his rival, Howe seems certain to wind up eventually with the honor...