Word: maximum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the plot might have been cribbed from Agatha Christie, the main character seems to have sprung straight out of a Charles Addams cartoon. At the age of 14 Young was sentenced to 15 years in the maximum-security Broadmoor mental hospital for having attempted to poison a classmate, his father and his sister. His stepmother died shortly after his confinement. Young admitted during the trial last month that she was the first person he had poisoned with thallium...
...does not advocate that everyone be childless. It recommends a maximum of one child for couples who really want youngsters, and no babies at all before age 21. According to Washington Psychiatrist E. James Lieberman, a member of NON's executive committee, there are good psychological reasons for practicing that restraint. "Our society thrusts people into parenthood prematurely," he says. "The best preventive psychiatry is becoming a parent at the proper time and for the right reasons...
...approach that may now spread is the practice of the Washington, D.C., bar, which last year adopted a rule calling on every member under 60 and not a Government employee to take his turn representing indigent defendants. The lawyers get hourly fees of $20 to $30, up to a maximum of $400, in misdemeanor cases. So far the plan has had broad cooperation...
...Nude Look. "Bareness is the expression of our times," declares Monika Tilley, Austrian-born sportswear designer. Her effort to give "the wearer maximum exposure" is clearly successful in the bathing suit at the right. As with some bikinis, the top and bottom are sold separately. This enables women of unorthodox proportions to jigger the sizes as they must, but might in time encourage the economical shopper to go topless to the beach-or bottomless...
...Alexander Helmer is the beginning of this remarkable study of crime and punishment in the U.S., 1964-72. The book has been minutely researched, gravely considered and artfully composed for maximum popular effect. To typify an era of ghetto violence, Author Morton Hunt (The Affair) aptly takes as his central instance the commonest of ghetto crimes, an actual attack performed by a gang of teenage drug addicts...