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...other inmates on death rows in 20 states, the big question now is: Who will be next? Jerry Lane Jurek, 22, convicted of the murder of a ten-year-old girl, was scheduled to die in the Texas electric chair last Wednesday. But hours after Gilmore's execution, the Supreme Court delayed Jurek's death until it could consider his appeal. Next up could be Calvin Woodkins, another Texas murderer, scheduled to die on Feb. 10. But that date too is likely to be postponed. The Supreme Court, however, has upheld the death-penalty laws in Texas, Georgia...
...magazine. Last fall about 11% of M.S.U.'s 7,700 freshmen were required to take a remedial course in English. Says English Instructor Mary Davis: "Even though they can talk to you as sophisticated and aware 18-year-olds, their voice on paper is that of a ten-year-old...
...group of ten-year-old boys seemed the most willing to talk. They commented that they like to play in the neighborhood...
...some are in the middle, and some affect both sides. Millard wanted to work first on a simple, unilateral case. As a boy in North Carolina, he had been a rodeo fan and had learned to twirl a lariat. So during some friendly horseplay, he literally lassoed a ten-year-old Korean boy and lollipopped him into the medical hut. (His parents could not be reached for approval.) When the stitches were removed, the result was so good that the boy became a walking, talking testimonial to Millard's wondrous surgery...
TIME'S correspondents, writers and researchers covering the 1976 Summer Olympics are obviously on the announcer's side, but some of them once had more strenuous thoughts. Staff Writer Le Anne Schreiber, who wrote the cover story, recalls the time when as a ten-year-old she hid her hair under a stocking cap and tried out for halfback on the football team of her Evanston, Ill., Catholic grammar school. "I was beating this guy out for the position," Schreiber says, "so he pulled off my cap, and the priest who was coaching the team shrieked...