Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week, while the murder of eight student nurses in Chicago is still starkly in the public memory, our cover story turns to the problem of the psychotic and society as illustrated by the still more immediate case of Charles Whitman, perpetrator of the worst mass murder in recent U.S. history...
...Symptoms of Mass Murder" examines the relationships between society and potential killers, finding that mass murder is by no means a modern or American phenomenon and suggesting that contemporary civilization-without abusing civil liberties-can do much more to reduce the dangers...
...wild pigs still abound not far from the capital. The horror of its intent only became obvious a few hours later, when the customer, Charles Joseph Whitman, 25, a student of architectural engineering at the University of Texas, seized his grisly fame as the perpetrator of the worst mass murder in recent U.S. history...
...Murder & "Mercenaries." As the war went on, U.S. planes last week launched their heaviest raids so far, sending a record 110 missions over the North in one day, topping it with increased ferocity the next. Orange fireballs rose hundreds of feet in the air above oilstorage depots near Hanoi, Thanh Hoa and Vinh...
...crime of the century." The police were so fearful of prejudicing their case that they did not even question Speck during the first three weeks after his arrest. Ironically, they seem also to have ignored another historic Supreme Court decision-the recent reversal of Dr. Sam Sheppard's murder conviction on grounds of "virulent" pretrial publicity. While recoiling from Speck himself, the Chicago police have talked about him enough so that his lawyers may well plead "trial by newspaper...