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Died. Nathan Leopold, 66, who with Richard Loeb murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it in 1924; of a heart attack; in San Juan. Both brilliant graduate students and the offspring of wealthy Chicago businessmen, Leopold and Loeb fancied themselves Nietzschean "supermen"-a notion that they set out to prove by carefully planning the kidnap-execution of a random victim. The killers were spared the death penalty and sentenced to life imprisonment "plus 99 years" after Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow made pioneering use of psychiatric testimony. Loeb was slashed to death in a 1936 prison fight...
When he is annoyed by being asked the same questions ("Who is your hero?" "What's your biggest thrill?" "Will you win 30 games?"), Blue tends to go into his shufflin', put-on routine: "It sholy is nice to have you fellas come an' talk to a po' boy lak me. Now some of you may not be aware of what sholy means. That's something we say down home. It's almost the same as surely." Hounded as he is, Blue is still very conscious of what he calls "Bogartin'." The way he tells it, "Bogartin' is when...
...nation and jousting with generals. There was a certain selfishness in seeking a career as an "inner-and-outer," spending a few years in the thick of the Washington bureaucracy to establish can-do credentials for an enhanced reflective life back out on campus. There was also the thrill of the game, outwitting colleagues as well as Communists. Moscow and Hanoi were opponents to be taken or checkmated on the international chess board. The deployment of power was fun. War, really, was academic...
When Florence suggested that a document might be revived and put back in circulation, he met opposition from people who were afraid of losing their "classification prerogatives." While it is an "ego thing" to stamp secret on a document, it is even more of a thrill to label it top secret. Says Florence: "Classification has become as automatic as putting a period after a sentence. Individuals at all echelons in the department practice classification as a way of life." It is an expensive practice, too. Florence estimates that it costs the Government millions of dollars a year for safes, fireproof...
...deformity, which apparently occurred when the egg that had begun to split into twins failed to divide fully, sent a thrill of terror through the Garcias' neighborhood. Superstitious peasants, who believed the child was cursed, threw rocks at the small house. A traveling circus, seeking to capitalize on the family's obvious misery, offered to buy the deformed child for its freak show. Fearful that Enrique might be abducted and sold, the family took refuge in the nearby home of a doctor...