Word: murder
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...misses by very little, however. Malamud's novel is a fictional version of the Beiliss Case in Kiev, 1911, in which a Jew was wrongly accused of the ritual murder of a Christian child and of milking his blood for the purpose of making Passover matzos. The incident, followed by an obscene wave of antiSemitism, was documented in a bleak narrative by Maurice Samuel in Blood Accusation, published this year. Malamud coincidentally worked on the same gruesome subject, but he has gone beyond journalistic intention...
AMERICAN WHITE PAPER-ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES (NBC, 7:30-11 p.m.).* Frank McGee will conduct the underworld tour, taking a look at the Prohibition raids of the '20s and continuing on through Murder Inc. of the '40s to the present day. Spliced in among the film clips in this 3½ -hour marathon will be interviews with local, state and federal officials and legislators, most notably Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Senators John McClellan, Edward Long and Robert Kennedy...
...TIME calls Whitman "the perpetrator of the worst mass murder in recent U.S. history." What about the charmer who a few years ago put a bomb in his mother's airborne suitcase and sent 44 innocents to a terrifying death...
...Murder in the Heart. On the surface, many Africans seem to be happy enough about apartheid. "We know what we have is ours, even if it is the gift of the white boss," says Ephraim Tchabalata, who has grown rich on a chain of dry-cleaning establishments and filling stations. The streets of the cities echo with the laughter of Africans, and the townships rock to the Beatle beat of guitars, strummed by young men wearing the cowboy hats that have become the latest rage. But all too often the smiles hide resentment. Says one African: "If I walk...
Died. Fred W. Slater, 67, Chicago Circuit-Court judge, a 1921 University of Iowa star tackle and five-year pro for the Chicago Cardinals, who became one of the first Negroes elected a judge in Chicago, in 1960 presided over the murder trial of Danny Escobedo, ruling against a motion that the accused's confession be set aside because he had been denied counsel, a decision that led to the now historic U.S. Supreme Court reversal; of cancer; in Chicago...