Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faced with such determined opposition, the Administration promptly retreated. Describing the differences over the .bill as "just a matter of tactics," House Minority Leader Gerald Ford let it be known that he would move for separate consideration of the Administration and Judiciary Committee proposals. That will virtually ensure passage of the committee bill...
...Viet Cong are known for their acts of terrorism, which often include the murder and kidnaping of innocent peasants. Still, they enjoy a simple, potent asset in the countryside of South Viet Nam. Whenever they conquer an area, the Communists promptly take the land away from the landowners and give it to the peasants. In many cases, the Viet Cong are able to keep the support of the peasants by warning that a return of government forces would mean a return of the landlords. Faced with U.S. troop withdrawals and possible early elections in which the vote of the hamlets...
...declared insane for murdering two women friends, Winnie Ruth Judd, "the Blonde Tigress," has escaped seven times from Arizona State Hospital. The last time was Oct. 8, 1962-and no one caught up with her until last month, when an alert California policeman checked the fingerprints of a housekeeper known as Marian Lane. Now Winnie, 64, has engaged Lawyer Melvin Belli, the flamboyant defender of Jack Ruby, to prove that she is a rehabilitated woman. He has only one reservation about taking the case: "When she called me, she wanted me to take care of her two poodles...
...Martin Luther King Jr. was buried in April 1968, five young Negroes in Benson, N.C., set fire to a rundown service station that was known as a Ku Klux Klan hangout. Damages came to less than $100, but last October the five youths were sentenced to twelve years apiece in prison. A month ago, Judge William Bickett frankly confessed that he might have been guilty of "bad judgment" in the cases of Percy Valle Barfield, 17, Frederick Lockamy, 18, Leo Stewart Jr., 19, Dubois Scotty Gather, 20, and Jesse Jones, 21. Bickett noted that a race riot had broken...
Jane's rescue from the subhuman existence of a mental-hospital ward is one of several hundred dramatic improvements that have been achieved by a relatively new-and hotly debated -technique known as reinforcement therapy. Unlike psychiatric techniques which seek to deal with deep-seated causes of a patient's psychosis, reinforcement therapy concentrates on controlling and guiding everyday behavior. Its basic principle is that the residual signs of normality in an insane person should be encouraged by praise and applause-in effect, reinforced and taught with the help of tangible rewards...