Word: penal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This was too much for Defense Minister Maurice Bourges-Maunoury. Last week he brought formal charges before the Paris military tribunal accusing Servan-Schreiber of violating the French Penal Code by seeking knowingly "to demoralize the army." There were some weak points in Servan-Schreiber's attack. His editors had dressed up the articles with pictures of military action committed not in Algeria but in Morocco, and as a close friend and top-rank follower of Radical Socialist Leader Pierre Mendeès-France, Servan-Schreiber is also open to the charge of politicking. But Servan-Schreiber reports that...
...whoever wins the headline battles, the issues of new revenue and the other parts of the Governor's program (ranging from penal reforms to the establishment of performance budgets for state departments) will doubtless drag on long into hectic summer sessions, since Massachusetts legislators usually spend the first few months each year preoccupied with their insurance businesses, law practices, or local what-have...
...juvenile delinquent be "cured" simply by hard work and discipline? Many social workers think not. The average delinquent, they argue, needs psychiatric care as well. Recently, Britain's penal authorities have been operating on the opposite theory: at "detention centers" at Kidlington, near Oxford, and Goudhurst in Kent, they have been putting delinquents through a rugged "basic training" course with surprising success. Last week, despite scattered criticism, the Prison Commission went ahead with plans to establish two new detention centers...
...some penal experts, the shock centers' spit-and-polish routine seems merely brutalizing. Says W. J. Bray, chief proba tion officer for Kent: "I say it is destructive . . . Why don't they pay more attention to boys' minds?" The London Daily Herald got into the fight by arguing that the shock centers leave their graduates more embittered than before...
Student. In Altadena, Calif., arrested after 200 burglaries, a 14-year-old boy told police he had boned up on the lives of famous criminals, studied the California Penal Code, was planning at the time he was caught to practice his technique on two small safes he had spotted in city hall...