Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continued to hammer on the need for immediate ratification of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty; Nixon favors delay. Addressing himself to the issue of crime and violence, Humphrey produced a cogent set of proposals that would provide large-scale federal assistance to state and local authorities in improving not only police forces but judicial and correction services as well...
...order" speech. If anything, his tone tends to be more conservative week by week. Last week drugs became the "modern curse of American youth, just like the plagues and epidemics of former years." The Supreme Court was attacked for weakening the hand of "the peace forces" in fighting crime. Washington was depicted as the "crime capital of the world." To the cheering audiences, it scarcely mattered that the facts were sometimes awry. For instance, though Washington does indeed have a serious crime problem, the capital ranks twelfth on a per capita basis in crimes of violence...
Promise-'Em-Anything. Nixon's suggestion that crime is an illness susceptible to prompt presidential cure is misleading. So is Humphrey's glib insistence that the Democrats have a monopoly on prosperity. Both are playing promise-'em-anything politics. It is hardly an original approach, nor one that any candidate can be expected to resist entirely. But at a moment that demands great moral authority in the nation's leaders, something more than what either Humphrey or Nixon has so far offered seems required...
Berating the U.S. Supreme Court used to be the fairly exclusive pastime of racists and other right-wing extremists. Now it has become a more popular preoccupation. Many people who think that U.S. society is somehow sick tend to blame the court for much of the rise in crime, the loosening of morals, the racial conflict and the general air of permissiveness. Most of those complaints have welled up in the acrimonious debate in the Senate over Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas to become the nation's 15th Chief Justice. Last week the argument grew angrier...
These two people are so solidly realized that the conventions of the crime thriller-careening cars, daring acrobatics, the inexorable dragnet-are all but incidental. The film's most heart-stopping sequence, in fact, is the hero's climb to the roof of the orphanage to retrieve a lost ball. This is only one of the many small human truths that Director Charles Crichton (The Lavender Hill Mob) presents to delight and surprise the eye. A phalanx of nannies march through Hyde Park as though each tree and blade of grass belonged to them. The faces of children...