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Recently Chuck Starkweather's world began to close in again. He was fired for laziness from a $7-a-day job on a garbage truck, locked out of his rented room until back rent was paid, forbidden to see chubby, 14-year-old Caril Fugate, to whom he had proposed at least three times. Last fortnight Starkweather decided to get even. Before he was stopped, he had shot, stabbed or clubbed ten people to death, and Lincoln (pop. 120,000) shivered through a two-day panic...
...concept of "guided democracy" (TIME, March 4), said scathingly: "Guided democracy is fascism. I have become aware that the present government under Your Excellency's leadership will eventually destroy the nation . . . Believe me, the government prohibition against barter trade will not be heeded. How can people be "forbidden to eat rice obtained from barter if rice from [the government stores] is not forthcoming...
...Mortal danger: forbidden to set foot here," read the police signs around the Haanschoten family's modest little house in the Netherlands town of Putten (pop. 12,000), south of the Zuider Zee. To enforce the order, barbed wire was strung around three sides of the house and its yard, and police mounted 24-hour guard. A team of radiation experts worked with a scintillation counter over every square foot of the grounds. The counter registered 60 times the normal (background) radioactivity. Technicians, looking like spacemen in white rubber suits with protective masks and gloves, used long-handled shovels...
...boro Duvel atch' pa leste!" cried Froniga to Yoben-meaning, in Romany, "The great Lord be on you!" Then Froniga "came into his arms with the simplicity of a child." But, as usual, Yoben held his fire. "I am a man to whom the love of woman is forbidden," this stern gypsy tinker had told Froniga, and try as she would to penetrate his enigma with darts from "her long-tailed dark eyes," Yoben was mute and cold as old pewter...
...John Cotton's Spiritual Milk, the message was to be good or face damnation. One hundred years later, it was still menacing enough (in one story, when a little girl went out on a forbidden walk, she was promptly kicked by a horse and crippled for life). Today the moralizing is less obvious, but it is still there...