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...Thirteen states have now abolished the death penalty, in whole or part. But while the rest of the country is reluctant to discard it, endless appeals as well as commutations now commonly delay or prevent executions. At the beginning of last year 331 prisoners lingered on death rows across the country, but few if any of them are likely to join the 3,856 Americans (including 32 women) executed since 1930. The Federal Government has carried out only one execution in ten years, now has only one pending (Nebraska Bank Robber-Murderer Duane E. Pope). Says Michigan's Senator...
...first ostensibly based on economics alone; he intends to cut all departmental and agency budgets by ten per cent, to erase a $475 million deficit inherited from the preceding Democratic administration. Already he has halted state hiring and closed down most of the service centers in the state's thirteen poverty areas...
...states where the law does not hamper college health services, policies range widely. Twelve of the schools surveyed will prescribe pills to any girl, regardless of age, even if she is not engaged to be married. Thirteen more will do so if the girl is over...
...November, the magazine contended that the unrelated deaths of thirteen people vaguely connected with the events in Dallas indicated that conspirators were trying to cover up; in this issue, it argues that there were three assassins, two firing from the rear and one from the front...
...Goldfader estimates that colleges could gain $20 million a year by dunning all of their lost grads. Tracers, which gets between $3 and $5 for each alumnus it finds, employs 18 people armed with U.S. telephone books, city directories, social registries, professional and business directories, even some voting lists. Thirteen field agents check local probate records...