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Next year South Carolina will swear in a new governor to replace old (74) James Francis Byrnes, who may not succeed himself under the state's one-term law. Last week, with the filing deadline past, the voters found the Democratic Primary (June 8) narrowed to two candidates...
...said the judge, "I have your confession." Grajales answered: "I signed that paper because I had seen three weeks of solitary confinement with frequent beatings. I had to sign it. Now, before God, I swear that there is not one word of truth in my so-called confession." Silence hung in the courtroom, thick as pitch. The prosecutor squirmed...
...Jandreau told Carey that his local would join the I.U.E. He even argued unsuccessfully with U.E.'s national leaders that the whole union should do likewise. As evidence of his change of heart, Jandreau promised Carey that if called to testify again before a congressional committee, he would swear that he is no Communist...
...plot is simple: A condemned father tells his two children, John and Pearl, where he has hidden ten thousand stolen dollars and makes them swear they will never disclose the secret. Most of the book concerns itself with the attempts of the father's released cell mate to make the children reveal the money. It is the ten year old son that is the hero of the novel. Never quite grasping the significance of "those green pieces of paper," protecting his trusting five year old sister from the sinister hunter, he endures hardships as only a child could: "the most...
...years ago the boys of Ireland . . . won freedom for three-quarters of their country. In Ireland's northeastern corner, which Britain yet holds, there is a small band of gallant Irish boys who still struggle for freedom. One of these, William Kelly, who contumeliously declared he would never swear allegiance "to a foreign Queen," was, therefor, as reported in your Dec. 14 story, convicted of "sedition" and given choice of binding himself "to be of good behavior" (be a nice, polite Briton) or go, a felon in felon's garb, to a convict prison. From the dock defiant...