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Last week, after more than eight hours' deliberation, the jury of eight men and four women reached its ver dict. Gertrude Baniszewski was convicted of first-degree murder; although the prosecution demanded the death penalty, the jury showed mercy and she was given a life sentence. Paula was found guilty of second-degree murder, which in Indiana carries a mandatory life term. John Baniszewski, Hubbard and Hobbs were convicted of man slaughter, and will each serve from two to 21 years in prison. Still awaiting trial is Stephanie, who, alone of her cruel clan, told the prosecution...
...sculpture that caused the most goggling was a copy of the one that most Greeks thought they knew best the Louvre's Venus de Milo. This ver sion, however, was by Spain's Salvador Dali, so of course there was a difference. Dali had put drawers on her. Here and there he had cut out sections and turned them into sliding compartments. One visitor, proceeding on the premise that drawers are for opening, pulled out Venus' forehead, breasts and stomach before a horrified guard could stop...
...hookworm disease of ancient Egypt, and the zzxjoanw is a musical instrument). Unfortunately, he omits acrostics, telestichs, lipogrammata, univocalic verses, Richelieu's equivoque or Swift's "Lacerated Latin" verses, in which Latin words make English statements ("Omi de armis tres,/ Imi na dis tres./ Cantu disco ver/ Meas alo ver?"). But he does include a section on the word square, the prototype of the crossword puzzle, and tops it off with an impressive sentence square composed entirely of five-letter words...
...then-in-vogue Hudson River School painters, built the gallery to house the overflow. Fairbanks' most handsome purchase was Albert Bierstadt's Domes of the Yosemite. The San Francisco Call la mented at the time that the painting "is now doomed to the seclusion of a Ver mont town where it will astonish the na tives." It would have easily astonished sophisticated San Franciscans. Ten feet high and 15 feet wide, the landscape overwhelms the viewer with a vast panorama of nature. The two famed domes in what is now California's Yosemite National Park soar...
Back of the myth, says Kraft, lies the reality: reporters competing feverishly to put across their highly selective ver sion of the news, shaped, inevitably, to their own prejudices and predilections. It is when the Government objects to their version that reporters raise the banner of the free press, elevating what is merely a political squabble into a "generalized and historic clash based on universal principles...