Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predictable bipartisan opposition. On the other hand, whatever the motive, the Republicans can now say to the South that they tried. Indeed, Nixon manages to convey a sense of earnest effort on a number of issues. He is trying to end the war, to curb inflation, to attack organized crime, to tell off campus radicals and other disturbers of the peace...
There are, in fact, two Las Vegases -real and illusory. The real one is a sprawling, dusty desert town in which sex education is banned in the public schools, 50-odd people committed suicide last year, and the crime rate is higher than Chicago's. A Methodist Church survey shows that 27% of Las Vegas residents are divorced. The illusory Vegas is the one that will be seen by 14 million visitors this year. Like giant mirages created by the heat vapors of the get-rich-quick furnace, the neon-lit, freon-cooled sand castles of The Strip rise...
Though there is no evidence that Miranda occasioned the release of large numbers of criminals, the decision did turn against the court a large group of Americans who are concerned about crime rates. A poll published by the Gallup organization last month disclosed that a majority in the nation not only opposes the Miranda decision but also the 1963 ruling that barred prayers and Bible reading in public schools, and a 1965 decision declaring that compulsory registration of Communist Party members was unconstitutional...
...emission of loud and raucous noise has long been considered conduct sufficient to constitute disturbing the peace. Proof of commission of the crime is sufficient if the acts are of such a nature as tend to annoy good citizens and do in fact annoy any one person present," Cronin's opinion stated...
...sobering accusation, directed at a group of policemen, judges and prison officials, was only one of many made last week at an unusual "workshop on crime and correction" in Annapolis...