Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even closed by simple decree, private travel and public gatherings could be banned, and such institutions as bars and beer halls closed down. Even worse, according to the 24-page official document outlining the government's emergency powers, "any police officer may, without warrant, arrest and detain any person of whom he has reason to believe there are grounds which would justify his detention...
...modern dying, there is no moment of death at all. Without realizing the momentous thing that is happening to them, patients are eased into the long, final coma. No matter how humane and sensible, this does raise the question of when and whether it is proper to "deprive a person of his death...
Unmoved Majority. In troubled dissent, Judge James R. Browning argued that the Fourth Amendment "protects such privacy as a reasonable person would suppose to exist in given circumstances." The ranger invaded that privacy, said Judge Browning, by cutting peepholes that "constituted actual intrusion," and the resulting surveillance without a warrant created what the Fourth Amendment condemns-"a general exploratory search conducted solely to find guilt." Not moved, Judge Browning's brethren refused to extend the right of privacy to a public toilet. There was no actual intrusion, said the court. "All appellants complain of is that they were seen...
...strangulation. In 1900, Germany's Paul Uhlenhuth solved a problem that had vexed the authorities since the days of Joseph's coat: he discovered a chemical means of discrim- inating human from animal blood. The mysteries of blood coagulation were then elucidated-the blood of a person who dies suddenly, it was discovered, coagulates rapidly, but then, for no known reason reliquefies. The pathology of rape was explored-semen, somebody noted, emits a pale blue glow under ultraviolet light. And some brilliant solutions were provided for a major medico-legal problem: How to detect murder disguised as suicide...
Underwood was the only person arrested, although scuffles between the two groups of pickets took place all day Demonstrators stood quietly while a group of teenagers grabbed signs saying "Negotiations Now" and tore them to pieces. An Ayer resident offered the pickets a gallon can of gasoline and yelled C'mon, cowards...