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...National Aeronautics and Space Administration has named, Nerman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics and Lee Goldberg '84, Higgins Professor of Astronomy to a 13-man committee of noted scientists from eight universities...
Dead Crime. Is there no law against "civic indifference"? asks Lawyer George Goldberg in the American Bar Association Journal. There is indeed, he says. It is called "misprision of felony" (from the Old French mesprendre, to mistake). Misprision is a crime of omission-a failure to act. In 1907, the Vermont Supreme Court defined it as "a criminal neglect either to prevent a felony or to bring the offender to justice after its commission." Misprision thus differs from "accessory" offenses, such as assent or assistance in a felony. Because the two are easily confused, however, misprision is almost never prosecuted...
...crime is nonetheless far from obsolete in Anglo-American law, says Goldberg. In Australia in 1959, for example, the Victoria Supreme Court upheld the misprision conviction of a man who knew who shot him but refused to tell the police. In England in 1961, the House of Lords upheld the similar conviction of a man who had discovered an arms theft at a U.S. Air Force base but failed to report it. In the U.S., says Goldberg, misprision of felony is a perfectly viable common-law charge in Vermont, a statutory offense in Maine, and a 176-year-old federal...
Salutary Influence. If properly revived, argues Goldberg, "misprision of felony would be a very salutary influence in our distressed society." Obviously, it would raise problems. How serious an offense would require disclosure? Would it involve mere suspicion as well as knowledge? Would close friends or relatives be obliged to squeal on one another? Goldberg himself feels that the offense should be limited to serious crimes, "perhaps only serious crimes against the person." All Americans, he says, "are familiar with their legal duty to report serious traffic accidents to the police. It is about time we consider violent assault on persons...
During the past five years, some 15,000 backyard mechanics have bolt ed souped-up engines onto skeleton aluminum frames, stuck on a couple of tractor seats and suspended the entire Rube Goldberg contraptions on bloated airplane tires - sometimes two up front and four in back. Organized into a par cel of clubs, the enthusiasts range from young mothers to 70-year-old business men, from hard-nosed competitors to misty-eyed naturalists. They all have one thing in common - a child's impatience for the next rally or picnic...