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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JACK RUBY, 53, the strip-joint owner who killed Oswald in the Dallas police station, often kneels in beady-eyed terror on the floor of his jail cell, and babbles that he can hear the screams of U.S. Jews who are being killed or castrated in the streets because of his crime. Such are his demented dreams that previously friendly guards have all but stopped playing dominoes with him, and Ruby spends hours hunched over on his bunk playing solitaire. Ruby has tried three times to kill himself-by battering his head against a wall, ripping up his trousers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Others | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...pointed out that the forthcoming Library Study Center will be the first Harvard or Radcliffe building to be built before all the money is raised. "If we don't find another $1 million before 1966 we'll all be in jail," she confided...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Radcliffe Breaks Ground for Study Center; Balloons Rise, Bands Blare, Sophs Shovel | 11/19/1964 | See Source »

...super-legislators, or indeed, of absolute mon-archs." He suggested that the New York obscenity law is unconstitutional, and grandly advised that the whole question of defining obscenity should be left to "a federal constitutional convention." Meanwhile, unless a higher court reverses his conviction, Bruce faces three years in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Profane Comedy | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...sterilization a legal alternative to jail? Can a court require such an operation for a man convicted of nonsupport of his children? And if the man is coerced into submitting to the operation against his will, what if he later wants more children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constitutional Law: The Difficulties of Getting Desterilized | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

...guilty, and the county recommended probation. But Pasadena Municipal Court Judge Joseph A. Sprankle took a firmer view: "I am concerned about all the children this man is producing without the ability to support them." He gave Andrade a choice: marriage to Elma Martello and sterilization by vasectomy-or jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constitutional Law: The Difficulties of Getting Desterilized | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

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