Word: keys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychiatry and criminology at the University of California at Berkeley, was the star witness for Sirhan's defense. His testimony buttressed the diagnoses of five other experts that Sirhan was afflicted with paranoia and schizophrenia. Diamond reconnoitered the darkening recesses of the assassin's mind. One key to the killing, Diamond insisted, must be found in Sirhan's arcane experiments with the mirror. It was during his self-induced trances, Diamond said, that Sirhan scribbled over and over that "Kennedy must...
...enhance the layman's opinion of psychiatry and its related fields. Nor does the fact that psychiatrists in the witness chair frequently couch their findings in language that either boggles the layman's mind or defies surface credibility. Even highly respected California Psychiatrist Bernard L. Diamond, key defense witness last week at the Sirhan trial, admitted that the jury might have trouble believing his testimony that Sirhan killed Robert Kennedy while in a self-induced hypnotic trance. To the layman, this would be an "absurd, preposterous story, unlikely and incredible," he allowed. The reputation of psychiatric wisdom...
Still at issue, though, was a key demand for amnesty for 400-odd students. In a press conference, Hayakawa cautiously refrained from claiming victory, and promised to withhold decision on disciplinary penalties involving more than probation until after April 11. "This commitment," he explains, "is made in order to give the B.S.U.-T.W.L.F. the opportunity to demonstrate their leadership in establishing peaceful conditions on campus." Until then, a force of more than 150 riot-equipped San Francisco police will continue to patrol the troubled campus...
...fifth of one's money's worth, one gets a stereotypical version of the key signers of the Declaration of Independence, together with the sometimes abrasive, sometimes soporific deliberations of the Second Continental Congress. History painted, as it were, by a sidewalk sketch artist, must rely on calcified profiles rather than searching character penetration. The Peter Stone book depends on the audience to expect the expected, and to bring along its own worn coloring crayons to the roles...
When the Bruins go into the Stanley Cup playoffs in a couple of weeks, their season record will mean nothing, for Stanley Cup hockey is different. Close checking and a tight defense are the key to a playoff victory...