Word: crimeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married, wife recently returned to university to study architecture . . . three children . . . plays tennis . . . Episcopalian . . . Contends that rise in crime rate and court backlogs result partly from fact that authorities only recently began recording and prosecuting many crimes committed by poor people against poor people...
...case will be no fluke. Under Baker, a record 90 grand juries around the U.S. will probe charges of price fixing in various industries. Baker, as one of his assistants notes, sought the sentences against the carton executives "to drive home the point that price fixing is a serious crime." The clear implication: some other executives could join the box bosses behind bars...
Burt's allies prefer to believe the psychologist was careless but honest. The suggestion of fraud "is so outrageous, I find it hard to stay in my chair," says Harvard Psychologist Richard Herrnstein. "Burt was a towering figure of 20th century psychology. I think it's a crime to cast doubt over a man's career." Professor of Educational Psychology Arthur Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley adds: "If Burt was trying to fake the data, a person with his statistical skills would have done a better job. It is a political attack. The real...
...course, never persuade any court of Wolfe's guilt. But Bone's pal Cutter is convinced-perhaps because he associates the Wolfe type with those who sent him to Viet Nam. He devises a reckless plan to blackmail the millionaire. Bone objects that "extortion is a crime." Shrugs Cutter: "So's murder...
...Badlands, she brought an unlikely but saving sympathy to the part of a Midwestern high school girl on an interstate crime spree with her boy friend. Currently, she is raising goose bumps, and even bringing a tear or two, as the put-upon heroine of Carrie, Brian De Palma's nightmare chiller about a young girl with telekinetic powers. For a little change of pace, she shows up as a topless housekeeper and part-time hooker in Welcome to L.A. (TIME, Nov. 22), winning the broadest laughs in a hard-edged social satire directed by Newcomer Alan Rudolph. Says...