Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...code officially provides that every man may have a public trial, a defense lawyer, and a chance to appeal the verdict. It cuts prison sentences for "ordinary" crimes from 25 to 10 years, and to 15 years for exceptionally severe offenses. It raises the age of criminal responsibility from 14 to 16. It scraps such punishments as exile abroad, recently proposed for Nobel Novelist Boris Pasternak. But capital punishment stays on the books, and repeaters or hardened criminals lose all rights to early parole. Death by shooting continues for treason (including "flight abroad or refusal to return to the U.S.S.R...
...scars in the heart muscle-evidence of a long-ago heart attack-were three times commoner in light workers (schoolteachers, bus drivers, clerks) than in heavy workers (boilermakers, dock laborers, coal hewers). Most striking, such scars were four to five times commoner among light workers in the 45-59 age group...
Also significant: although some narrowing of coronary arteries occurred regardless of occupation, the most severe shutdowns, of the type that causes clear-cut heart attacks, were more frequent among light workers and occurred when they were younger-as often in their 45-59 age group as among heavy workers aged...
...most advanced electracoustically experimental studios in the world." Recently he has developed a "stereophoner," an electronic device that gives the illusion of stereophonic sound to monaural recordings. Technology, rather than talent, Scherchen believes, will determine the music of the future. Says he: "We do not live in an age of great creativity...
Last summer, while shooting his third movie (Mardi Gras) in Hollywood, Pat wrote a sun-drenched book: 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty (Prentice-Hall; $2.95). By last week its call for healthy-mindedness among "my friends out there in Teen-age Land" was influencing so many of them (or their Lolita-stunned parents) that the book had become a major bestseller...