Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juvenile crime rates skyrocketed, editors have had to decide whether they were avoiding their responsibility to tell all the news, and whether the policy of secrecy has been one of the causes of the increase in juvenile crime...
Pressure to name names has mounted with the statistics: juvenile crime leaped by 70% from 1948 to 1955, while the U.S. juvenile population grew only 16%. Some areas show even more frightening figures. Latest New York City statistics show that 41.2% of arrests for all major crime involve offenders under 21. In Detroit police estimate that 70% to 80% of all car thefts are committed by juveniles...
...would empower judges to impose secrecy on criminal cases involving youths. In Tennessee newspapers are also fighting a law that shields the identity of juvenile offenders. In Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts and Florida, editors often defy the law to give their readers the full story of a particularly serious juvenile crime...
...judge, descended on the humble apartment of Milovan Djilas, no obscure person, but the former Vice President of Yugoslavia and onetime partisan comrade of Tito. The police seized all Djilas' recent writings and marched him off to jail. No charge was laid against Djilas. His presumed crime: he had written an article for New York's New Leader hailing the Hungarian revolution as a "new chapter in the history of humanity," in effect, the beginning of the end of Communism...
Died. Rudolph Halley, 43, onetime (1950-51) horn-rimmed hawkshaw for Senator Estes Kefauver's much-televised Senate Crime Investigating Committee, who as chief counsel grilled Underworld-lings Mickey Cohen. Frank Costello, Virginia Hill and Frank Erickson, won the New York City Council presidency in 1951 as a Liberal Party candidate on the strength of his performance; of acute pancreatitis; in Manhattan...