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Word: burglars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leave it alone, we're going to support South Viet Nam. If they do leave it alone, peace can come very fast. It's not for me to say what the Communists get out of it. We don't accept the view that the burglar or the robber is entitled to something just because he makes the effort. When they have reached the point where they have decided that [victory in the south] is not a result they can achieve, then perhaps there can be peace in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE WORLD IN OUR LIVING ROOM | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...Louisiana's Huey and Earl Long, a onetime district attorney (for Winn Parish) who helped start Huey's political career, later broke with him and testified to his flagrant abuse of power in the 1933 U.S. Senate investigation of election fraud, dubbing his brother "the greatest political burglar of all times"; of complications following uremia; in Shreveport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 19, 1965 | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

Cambridge police arrested three Boston area men early yesterday morning on charges of "being abroad at night and carrying burglar tools," near the Harvard Cooperative Society laundry building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Officers Arrest Three Toting Burglar Tools | 9/28/1965 | See Source »

Marcom is busy finding more uses for its invention. Last May, a San Jose, Calif., burglar learned about one of them. When he slipped open the window of a house whose owner was away on vacation, he unknowingly tripped a trigger that set the diverter to silently dialing the police. When the cops answered the phone, the diverter sounded a coded buzz. By checking their key, the police could identify the source of the call, soon had a prowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Telephone: Hello, Is Anyone There? | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS links suspects to incredibly small bits of physical evidence that defy conventional chemical or spectroscopic analysis. Tiny flecks of paint from a jimmied door may turn out to be crucial when found on a burglar's clothing, simply because atomic particles emit specific radiation patterns when properly stimulated in a nuclear reactor. The patterns are projected on an oscilloscope screen, and if those from the burglar match those from the door, he might as well plead guilty. Developed by General Dynamics Corp.'s General Atomic Division, N.A.A. has already won convictions in Canada, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: To Catch a Thief | 7/30/1965 | See Source »

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