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...added that "these modifications in no way alter the rule which the pub lic safety has always required, that per sons who are dangerous due to mental illness be confined." Despite the dis claimer, the ruling did raise the specter of a murderer found not guilty by rea son of insanity and later judged not insane enough for confinement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decisions: Insane Then, Doesn't Mean Insane Now | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...Tucci, trained by M. Fife: "23Jy 51-1 Jm fst 5½ f .23 .471/5 1.06 3/5 Cl. $6500 3 3 1 3 3 4 9 17" The knowing reader's translation: On July 23rd, Stormy Ruth ran in the first race at Jamaica, a $6500 claimer, five and a half furlongs, on a fast track. She broke from post position three, was third out of the gate, was in front at the quarter, dropped back to third at the half, was third by four lengths in the stretch, finished ninth, beaten 17 lengths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Vet's List | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

...signs of the times last week. In Wall Street, where his candidate was unpopular, betting odds favored Roosevelt's election 2½-to-1. All except the most biased Republican newshawks touring the country reported evidences of a strong anti-Hoover tide still running. Even so ardent a claimer as Robert Lucas, ''brains" of the G. O. P. headquarters at Chicago, last week reported to President Hoover that only 270 electoral votes-a majority of four-were in sight for his reelection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Portents & Prophecies | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...refused to make redress and, vexed by his pestiferousness, expelled him from the island. Not only did Mr. Barlow appeal to the U. S. State Department for assistance, but he rowed with Secretary Kellogg whom he threatened to "bust on the nose." Now bent, irritable, old, $5,000,000-Claimer Barlow professes himself reduced to beggary, from which the Slemp & Sanders names must rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Beggary | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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