Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy at first denied our story partially, in two instances replying to reporters' questions: "I don't want to talk about that." Then, in a letter to TIME, he described the report as "almost wholly inaccurate." Wrote Kennedy: "It is one thing to give an account of a discussion between public figures concerning a public matter which was, as I have said, 'not without friction'; it is quite another to ascribe fictitious profanity or threats to the participants. I did not -nor would I-use the kind of lan guage you attributed to me in speaking...
...Administration of Justice concluded that the full story of U.S. crime simply cannot be told. The available statistics, after all, reflect only visible crime; most successful crime is, by definition, secret or invisible. All too numerous are the felonies that intimidated victims never report. And no figures can account for the ordinary consumer or the bilked businessman who does not know that he has been cheated. Embezzlement, price-rigging, tax evasion, bribery, graft, are all far more prevalent than the number of cases that are prosecuted...
...commission also agreed that the majority of crimes that flood the courts should not be there in the first place. Drunkenness, disorderly conduct, vagrancy, gambling and minor sex violations account for almost half of all arrests. Such behavior is "too serious to be ignored," but "its inclusion in the criminal-justice system raises questions deserving examination." Drunkenness, for example, should be treated at public health "detoxification" stations and kept out of courts entirely, unless it is accompanied by disorderly conduct...
Felonies--which account for an infinitesimal percentage of the CLAO case load--could confront student assistants with ethical problems far removed from the dry case studies of the law school. "Suppose a client comes in, says, 'here's the knife,' and asks a student to defend him. What does the student do?" Ferren asks...
...File and Forget," an extended account of the donderheads in the book-publishing business, could do with some more rehearsal. So could the short opening and closing numbers, the "Word Dances," in which couples whirl about the stage, freezing in various attitudes as one character or another delivers a cartoon caption. Every unscheduled shuffle or concession to momentum is instantly apparent and instantly annoying...