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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...
...contributions among almost all major existing groups. He is confident about the nation's progress in race relations, which has inclined him to favor less extreme actions; he was opposed, for example, to the recent situation in the White House. Thomas states that "there is no commandment 'thou shalt demonstrate,'" and he counsels against universal adoption of civil disobedience...
...enlightened, exurban parents handed down only one sexual prohibition: Thou Shalt Not Tease. And to Nickie Hornbury, violation of it is unthinkable-as is any subject other than sex. Even when she rode the subway to Barnard College, her favorite game was to contemplate, in case the car was stranded, which passenger would be coupled with whom. By the time Nickie is 20, the game can be played for real: dinners at the Hornburys' waterside estate on Long Island are followed almost automatically by a skinny dip in the Sound. Unfortunately, at 25, Kathrin Perutz' ultra-sophistication...
...sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck...
...other overseas countries through Vladivostok-a journey more than double the length of the old route through Tientsin. The petty recriminations from both sides of the long border could only have provoked sighs of regret from oldtime Communists. Under Joseph Stalin, the ultimate commandment was harshly enforced: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor...