Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grim Optimism. The most dramatic example of Miranda's early effects is the way Chicago police have handled Richard Speck, accused killer of eight nurses, in what the coroner called "the crime of the century." The police were so fearful of prejudicing their case that they did not even question Speck during the first three weeks after his arrest. Ironically, they seem also to have ignored another historic Supreme Court decision-the recent reversal of Dr. Sam Sheppard's murder conviction on grounds of "virulent" pretrial publicity. While recoiling from Speck himself, the Chicago police have talked about...
Normally, Wirtschaftswunderkind Erhard has been able to allay economic fears with his prosperous presence and confident campaign style. This time the hecklers got the better of him. Speaking in Gelsenkirchen during the last week of the campaign, Erhard was confronted by a grim-faced chorus of Kumpel (miners) who closed in about the speaker's platform carrying black flags and muttering about impending mine closings. "Shameless riffraff!" snapped Erhard when they booed him. "If it hadn't been for me, these louts and hoot owls would have rotted in their diapers. Never have I seen so much stupidity...
After duly noting that auto accidents kill 50,000 Americans a year, safety experts generally agree that the use of seat belts would save 10% of those lives and reduce serious injuries by one-third. Convinced by the grim statistics, legislators have made seat belts mandatory on new cars in 32 states and the District of Columbia. Still, studies show that motorists are unimpressed; they fail to buckle their belts 50% of the time. Now the law is beginning to develop a powerful persuader: failure to use a seat belt may well bar recovery in a personal-injury suit...
...ethic of that ancient oath "by Apollo the Physician" is one that all doctors have sworn to and still swear by. Do they live up to it? Not always, is the grim conclusion of Harvard's Dr. Henry K. Beecher after a ten-year study of medical experiments recently performed on human subjects. Dr. Beecher has no quarrel with the physician who tries a new drug or a new operation for the benefit of a patient; he is concerned about experiments that are designed for the ultimate good of society in general but may well do harm...
...executives have often been unimaginative, but Britons themselves are increasingly blaming their productivity plight on the backward-looking trade unions, which count 9,900,000 members. Mired in a Depression-era mentality and still committed to the concept of class struggle, many unionists have an inexplicable fear that the grim layoffs of the 1930s will reoccur. They are not likely to. In Scotland alone, there are now 154 jobs available for every 100 men looking for work, and unemployment throughout Britain is at a ten-year...