Word: criminalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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> On Nixon's role in the Watergate coverup: "I had expected to find all sorts of wrongdoing by his aides, conduct unbecoming and even criminal, but it had never occurred to me that the President was in the driver's seat."
Gierek quickly backed down and canceled the price increases. But that was only a temporary maneuver. In a show trial designed to brand the Radom protesters as vandals, six carefully chosen defendants-all had criminal records-were sentenced to four to ten years at hard labor on charges of looting...
But has the Miller method worked? Researchers at Harvard's Center for Criminal Justice who have studied the new system offer a qualified yes. Overall juvenile recidivism rates are still about the same as in 1968-with one significant difference. For delinquents now in "open" experiments, recidivism is 50...
Yet the outlook may not be all that bleak. Last year Israel had only 1.4 murders per 100,000; the U.S. had 9.7 and France 2.0. Moreover, most Israeli criminals are freelancers; there is no "mob." Rosolio also likes to point to one of his most potent weapons: Israel'...
In The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972), Novelist George V. Higgins did for Massachusetts hoodlums what Damon Runyan did for Broadway's guys and dolls: he turned their chatter into brassy poetry. Higgins' next two thrillers dipped into the same shady world as his first-that cramped anteroom...