Word: lied
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After Lie Detector Expert Warren D. Holmes said that his tests indicated Shea was innocent, the airman made another confession and this time signed it. Though Crime Lab Supervisor Edward D. Whittaker testified that Shea's shirt was splattered with his own B-type blood and there was only one spot of Mary Meslener's O-type, the confession persuaded a jury to find Shea guilty of first-degree murder and to recommend mercy...
...MacGregor Burns points out, has become the "Chief Executive of Metropolis." Not for 50 years has the heartland of America been the physiocratic demi-Eden of American myth, the pastoral paradise hymned by Jefferson and Thoreau, limned by Eakins and Wyeth. The ganglia of history's richest nation lie today in the inchoate, intermeshed agglomerations of city, suburb and country that have become Megalopolis americanus. Such is its present rate of growth that by century's end, one concrete conurbation will reach from Portland, Me., to Norfolk, Va., in the East, another from the Mexican border...
Such is the state of U.S. humor that, except for the comparatively small squadron of black humorists, there are almost no original comic talents left. As it is now, the choice seems to lie between the banalities of the TV screen and what are the frequent absurdities of the black humorists, a choice roughly comparable to that offered by a menu with only two items: vanilla pudding and a whisky sour...
Frequently mentioned as alternatives to Brookline-Elm, which would pass several blocks of Central Square and uproot between 3000-5000 people, two alignments further to the east. Both of these lie on the fringe of the campus and are opposed by the Institute...
Three possible routes for the Inner belt now being seriously considered: The BROOKLINE-ELM ST. route would displace between 3000 - 5000 people and pass within several blocks of Central Square. The RAILROAD and PORTLAND-ALBANY ST. lines lie further to the East. The railroad alignment is actually bordered by M.I.T. laboratories; the Portland-Albany alignment is just beyond the fringe of the campus. It was these last two routes that M.I.T. rejected last Sunday. The Department of Public Works is also known to favor the BROOKLINE-ELM ST. route...