Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Backward Clocks. Another debate rages over the FBI's "crime clocks." In tallying crimes against the person, the 1964 crime clock registered one murder every hour, one robbery every five minutes, one aggravated assault every three minutes. By ignoring the number of people actually vulnerable to such crimes, says Professor Robison, the crime clock presents a distorted picture: "Since the base figures cover an entire year, the number of offenses should be divided by 365 days to represent the chances that any one person would risk. Utilizing this method, rough calculations for murder in 1964 suggest that...
Died. Sir Sidney Oakes, 39, son of multimillionaire Sir Harry Oakes (victim of a famed, unsolved murder in 1943), a Nassau businessman and amateur sports car driver; of injuries when his Sunbeam Alpine failed to make a curve at high speed; in Nassau...
Defiant Throughout. As for Daniel Arzhak, the major stain on his blotter was his macabre novel This Is Moscow Speaking, which imagined a "Public Murder Day," on which Soviet citizens could kill almost anyone they chose. Excerpts from the trial...
Prosecutor: Your story says that, "As usual, the paper [Izvestia] printed an editorial calling for observance of Public Murder Day." Isn't that slander on the entire Soviet press...
...monstrous atmosphere that no longer bears any relation to reality. It creates a kind of shroud, a peculiar kind of electrified atmosphere in which the boundary between the real and the grotesque becomes blurred, rather as in the works of Arzhak and Tertz. In general, a real 'Public Murder Day'-but only with two actors: Daniel and myself...