Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bronte's novel of a century ago. This time the child was real, and murdered. The body of a ten-year-old girl who disappeared three days after Christmas when leaving her home in Manchester for a holiday excursion, was discovered three weeks ago, naked, in a shallow grave on the Saddleworth Moor in Yorkshire...
...huggermugger that still swirls about Saddleworth, a mist-shrouded, hilly corner of country England near where Yorkshire, Cheshire and Lancashire meet. Acting evidently on the advice of tipsters, police began combing the moor three weeks ago. First, they found the girl's body, then, in a second grave, that of a twelve-year-old boy, missing for nearly two years from his home in near by Ashton-under-Lyne. Half a dozen neighborhood children between the ages of 12 and 16 are also listed as missing...
What did it all mean? Police, in the best tight-lipped Scotland Yard tradition, declined to say. Nonetheless, every reporter on the scene was busy trading rumor and theory. Last week an R.A.F. Canberra was called in to take aerial photographs of the grave sites. Newsmen promptly asked Detective Superintendent Arthur Benfield whether some kind of black cult could have buried its victims in a magic pattern or symbol, visible only from the air. "I like black magic," Benfield parried, "but they tend to make me put on weight." Black Magic is a well-known brand of English chocolates...
...great deal about a government system that concerns itself with details of daily living beyond the fantasies of yesterday's Utopians. To move through its 1,011 pages is to have one's eyes opened to a wonderland of federal paternalism that stretches from cradle to grave or, as the Department of Health, Education and Welfare might prefer to put it, from the Children's Bureau to the Office of Aging...
Jack Ruby's case may drag on for years. Whatever the outcome, his trial left Authors Kaplan and Waltz with grave doubts about the sole issue in question-whether he was indeed insane when he committed murder before 80 million TV witnesses. What was confirmed was that a highly publicized U.S. trial is more than likely to become a circus. And what is worse, that even an unpublicized U.S. trial metes out justice largely to the extent that the lawyers on both sides have equal skill-and equal luck...