Word: mayhemic
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...fastest-growing major crime in the U.S. is not murder, rape or mayhem. It is bank robbery, an increasing frustration for the nation's moneymen. The problem extends from Washington, D.C., where a bank 100 yards from the White House grounds was looted last December, to North Hollywood, Calif., where one bank was recently hit twice in the same day. Last year U.S. banks reported 1,840 robberies, four times the number in 1960. The average bank robber is a lone amateur in his mid-30s. He has an 86% chance of fleeing the bank, but the FBI says...
Boggs: Well now, why is television effective in reaching people and advertising political campaigns and is not effective when it shows sadism, masochism, murder, mayhem and rape...
...this roundabout way, Boggs was trying to get Stanton to admit before the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence that TV mayhem affects the minds of susceptible viewers. But the CBS president, a Ph.D. in psychology, insisted that this proposition was unproved, and required further study. Besides, he added: "We don't yet have the methodology with which to make the study." Boggs quickly recollected congressional committee investigations that have been going on since 1954. His voice rose. "This is the study-est thing that has ever happened with no results," he said. "How long...
Those Kennedy clan touch-football sessions were wild and woolly for their day. But the antics at Hickory Hill and Hyannisport now seem like a girls' fieldhockey jamboree compared with the mayhem on the greensward at Gracie Mansion when New York Mayor John Lindsay and his pals take the field. After the latest game, one aide had landed in the hospital with a broken hand and two others were hobbling around with badly swollen shins. And Hizzoner unscathed. In fact, despite striking teachers and recalcitrant policemen he was dressed up for a night out on the town with...
Geneticists have yet to prove that men who carry an extra male or Y chromosome in their body cells tend to be criminally violent. Yet, increasing evidence supports the theory that such men are overaggressive "supermales" inclined toward mayhem (TIME, May 3). This month attorneys in two widely separated cases made courtroom history by introducing the disputed concept in defense of two accused killers...