Word: thorntons
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...excluding jurors who oppose capital punishment, the state makes both conviction and imposition of the death sentence more likely, by violating the defendant's right to a jury picked from a full cross section of the community. The second California case differs markedly. In that one, Robert Emmett Thornton, 23, has already been convicted of two kidnap-rapes. While he was awaiting formal sentencing, the A.C.L.U. asked to be allowed to challenge the constitutionality of capital punishment. In a rare move, the judge agreed to take evidence on the point: in September, such anti-death-penalty experts as former...
...latest project-the score for a forthcoming TV musical commissioned by the BBC-is a crucial test, since it is his first major work not built around his harmonica playing. In his own mind he apparently passes the test, for he is now seeking Thornton Wilder's approval for a musical version of The Skin of Our Teeth. "At the moment, I feel I'm a kind of footnote in musical history," Adler explains. "I've put something into concert music that wasn't there before. But if I could make a real mark...
...amounted to $1.2 billion last year. But the Greek venture could be a pilot for applying Litton's systems engineering to similar projects abroad. Already in the works: a deal with Lisbon for joint development of Alentejo, a region in central and southern Portugal. Says Litton Chairman Tex Thornton: "We're using Greece and Portugal as sort of guinea pigs...
Peters shut out the Terriers on two hits from then on, while his teammates finally got to Stipanovich in the seventh. Smith and Dan Hootstein the rightfielder playing in his last game for the Crimson, singled, and both advanced a base when Thornton had trouble picking up Hootstein's shot to left. They both scored on Lord's blast to center, and those two tallies proved to be the winning runs...
...Hall 3 1 1 M'nch'r 2 0 0 Peters 4 0 0 Totals 30 4 5 B.U. ab r h Fontas 4 0 2 Mortimer 3 0 0 Wood 4 0 1 Neild 4 0 0 Thornton 3 1 1 Lever'ne 3 0 0 Fenton 3 0 0 Olmare 1 0 0 McBride 1 0 0 St'p'ch 3 0 0 Mara 0 0 0 Totals...