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...surge in executions has been an exclusively Southern phenomenon: all 20 this year have taken place in the South, eight of them in Florida. "The Sunbelt has always been the most execution-prone section of the country," says Watt Espy, a capital-punishment expert at the University of Alabama Law Center, who cites the area's traditions of frontier violence and eye-for-an-eye justice. But this regionalism will probably end soon. Indiana expects to put at least one person to death during 1985. So do Nebraska, Missouri and Idaho...
Another station donated a 500-watt transmitter and on May 17, 1957, WHRB began broadcasting all over the Boston area. "We would get cards from people who had heard a 'strange signal' as far away as 100 miles west of us. It forced the station to become much more professional and to mature much more quickly," says Wyss...
...brownish, broody, tattered just so; the tone of the crowd scenes is strenuously raunchy; during the battle scene, cannon fire pops your eardrums, and the R.S.C. smoke machine wafts its fumes across the orchestra seats; the whole production looks to be illuminated by a 20-watt bulb. To see this ensemble devote itself with patented bustle to Cyrano is to feel the comfortable but unsatisfying sensation of watching a favorite dog do old tricks...
...offers a clear choice as the candidate who best understands the urgent need to safeguard the country's land, water and air. Under Reagan's stewardship-or rather, lack of stewardship-the environment has suffered a brutal attack from the forces of neglect unleashed by the lies of James Watt and Ann Burford...
...environmental groups agree with the report's gloomy assessment. One of the most conservative of the organizations, the National Wildlife Federation, which had joined in the chorus against Watt, sees Clark as a plus. "He has defused the tension," says Lynn Greenwalt, a vice president of the N.W.F. "Mr. Clark is approachable, and he listens." Clark has yet to make major substantive changes in Interior, says Greenwalt, but compared with Watt in the areas of diplomacy and personality, "Mr. Clark has to get an A+ with summa cum laude...