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...Squalid Aftermath. The authors give high marks to Henry Wade as a trial tactician, even though they argue that he introduced improper evidence. By contrast, they note that Belli failed even to try to talk the jury out of the death penalty...
...squalid aftermath, five other lawyers have since flitted in and out of the case, trading mutual insults through a blizzard of appeals. Equally "grotesque," say Kaplan and Waltz, was last winter's revelation that Judge Brown was not only writing a book on the case, which he was about to confront again in the form of a new hearing on Ruby's current sanity, but that he had sent a letter to his New York publisher proposing that he announce publicly: "I have not begun to write a book." It was that disclosure, the authors suggest, that forced...
...participating without fanfare in government information programs; in Colombia, one is helping pre pare films and slides for family planning. And in Brazil, some even dispense birth-control devices to peasants. Last November, Chile's President Eduardo Frei launched a massive birth-control campaign in Santiago's squalid shanty towns, setting up a dozen clinics to distribute contraceptive pills. In December, Peru's President Fernando Belaunde Terry set up a "Center for the Study of Population and Development" to analyze the country's population problems. In Brazil, a private foundation-sponsored group plans to organize about...
...CONGO. When Patrice Lumumba was murdered by his own native political enemies, a worldwide propaganda drive turned the unstable and squalid rabble-rouser into a martyr and tried to pin the deed on the CIA. Attempting to woo the Afro-Asian segment of world opinion, the Kennedy Administration joined the clamor against Lumumba's former enemies and supported the U.N. war against Moise Tshombe's Katanga province. Since then the U.S. has switched, is supporting Tshombe as the man who can conceivably avert chaos in the Congo and who so far has been successful in suppressing...
...prize fillies in Gordy's stable are the Supremes, three girls who grew up together in Detroit's squalid Brewster Housing Project. With four consecutive No. 1 records, they are the reigning female rock 'n' roll group, followed by Motown's Martha and the Vandellas. Diana Ross, 21, the Supremes' lead singer, is greatly envied for the torchy, come-hither purr in her voice. Her secret: "I sing through my nose...