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...semiskilled factory hand and an over-skilled sex deviate. In 1961, he confessed that he was the "Measuring Man," who for more than a year had talked his way into the apartments of gullible women by claiming to be a representative of a model agency. He did not harm any of the women, but got his kicks from touching them while he took their measurements on the pretext that he was recruiting talent. He served eleven months-for attempted breaking and entering and assault and battery-before he was paroled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murderer Unmasked? | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...bill, backed by the Administration, would prohibit discrimination in the selection of federal and state juries, enable the Attorney General to initiate school-desegregation suits, and forbid intimidation or physical harm of civil rights workers or of voters. It would also forbid discrimination in the sale or rental of housing by anyone selling or leasing more than three units (other than their own house) in any one year. It is this provision that prompted Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to oppose the law as "unconstitutional" and refuse to put his enormous prestige behind the measure. When the Democratic leadership tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Changed Climate | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

Then he took the stand in his own defense, and suddenly the case against him began to look remarkably flimsy. Guided by Georgiadis, Kinsey explained that he had loved his wife, had never suspected or accused her of infidelity, nor had he ever wanted to harm or hit her. He testified that since they were both teachers, they had spent most of the day of her death at home grading papers, then they had left to cycle to Impala hill. Kinsey had intended to take his camera equipment along to photograph birds and wild life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: The Peace Corps Murder Case | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...California Governor Pat Brown, swallowed hard and conceded that the subcommittee "went a little strong-to put it mildly." And President Johnson, himself stung by criticism from the Senate group, did Yorty no harm by chiming in that the Johnson Administration had done more to alleviate urban problems than "any Administration in the history of the country," including "the last Administration," in which Bobby was Attorney General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Magnet in the West | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

Free Everyone. Unlike judges, juries tend to feel that a cured harm is no harm, as when a defendant returns stolen money; they resist penalizing a defendant who corrupts the already corrupted, as in the statutory rape of an unchaste girl. In repeated cases of indecent exposure, a jury tends to convict if the victim is a child, to acquit if the victim is an adult woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Juries: Community Conscience | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

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