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...jittery, harmless-looking little man in steel-rimmed spectacles was accused of murder, and he had long since confessed. Now, after four days of testimony and five hours of deliberation, the jurors had reached a verdict. They found the defendant, Howard Pierson, 49, not guilty by reason of insanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Redefining Insanity | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...hillside cottage near Comrie that became the official seat of government during the campaign. When heckling stirred an uproar in the crowd he was addressing at Aberfeldy, the Prime Minister calmly sat down in mid-speech, refusing to let party stewards throw out the interrupters. Said he: "They are harmless people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Home in the Highlands | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...spacecraft and a meteoroid would collide, are less worried than laymen, but even so, they have planned on protecting long-range space vehicles with meteor bumpers. Now it seems that spacecraft will need no such shields. Space is indeed teeming with meteoroids, but most of them are fluffy stuff, harmless as thistledown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Probe for Comet Fluff | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

After turning back to the Vassar campus, however, the caravan bumped into a police car which "was either waiting or just happened to be there," Flitton said. Various members of the group attempted to explain that they only intended to stay "ten, minutes for a little harmless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Puncture Dawn Band Raid In Poughkeepsie | 11/4/1963 | See Source »

...words-though in a complimentary sense, to denote "self-made heroes." Explaining her macabre comment about "these Buddhist barbecues" after the suicides by fire began, she said that her daughter had overheard a U.S. soldier use the phrase at a Saigon hot-dog stand. "It sounded like a perfectly harmless Americanism," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In the Lions' Cage | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

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