Word: fein
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...Yorker sentenced to life imprisonment is "civilly dead"-his family can even dispense with his name. Mark Fein was a respectable Manhattan container manufacturer who secretly consorted with gamblers and prostitutes. Last year Fein received a 30-year-to-life sentence for murdering his bookie to avoid paying a $23,898 World Series bet. To shield her three children from the seamy publicity, Fein's wife Nancy sought to resume her maiden name of Nahon. Permission granted, ruled Judge George Starke last week. Not only has Fein lost all civil rights, from suing to voting to making contracts...
Died. William Thomas Cosgrave, 85, Ireland's President from 1922 to 1932, an early member of the revolutionary Sinn Fein and active participant in the bloody 1916 uprising, who then sided with the moderates accepting Britain's offer of self-rule, in 1922 became President of the Irish Free State, working ably to put the exhausted country on its feet, establish an efficient legislature, stabilize finances and improve agriculture, but still lost to Eamon de Valera in 1932, thereafter leading the opposition until retirement in 1944; of a heart attack; in County Dublin; Ireland...
...interpretation of the mysteries of the Unfathomable Machine will give them powers far greater than those held by any similar elite in history. I once asked a brilliant mathematician what sort of program he envisioned for the leisurely masses of the modern Hellenic era that he, like Dr. Fein, kept predicting. "Well," he stuttered, "there'd be picnics and lots of good music, and things like that...
Automation is also certain to liber ate both manpower and brainpower to tackle tasks hitherto considered impossible and to meet human needs till now deemed impractical. The world, after all, could certainly use a lot of improvement. "What the hell are we making these machines for," says Dr. Louis Fein, a California computer consultant, "if not to free people?" Many scientists hope that in time the computer will allow man to return to the Hellenic concept of leisure, in which the Greeks had time to cultivate their minds and improve their environment while slaves did all the labor. The slaves...
...male jury last week deliberated for 19 hours, finally returned a verdict of second-degree murder against Manhattan tin-can Manufacturer Mark Fein, 32, in the fatal shooting of his bookie (TIME, Nov. 20). The crime is punishable by 20 years to life. Second-degree murder is defined as killing in the heat of anger, without premeditation. The definition did not necessarily fit the circumstances of the Fein case, but the jury was not about to send a man to the chair on the say-so of the chief witness, Gloria Kendal, described by a defense attorney as "this procuress...