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...award for maiming or killing your assailant: the Courageous Citizens Award offered by the Federation of Greater New York Rifle and Pistol Clubs. The first three intended recipients-New York merchants who had killed three bandits -declined their commemorative plaques and $200 prizes. The federation's president, Gerald Preiser, tried to donate the money to the city's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, but it too refused. Last week a New York janitor who wounded his assailant became the award's first winner. "I protect my life," he said, as the flashbulbs popped and the TV cameras...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Hot-Shot Prize | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...dangerous distraction from their goal of eliminating the "racist system." After George Jackson's death at San Quentin and after Attica, penologists wonder whether any reforms within the current prison framework would mollify such prisoners. "Their anger is not directed toward the prisons but toward society," says Peter Preiser, New York State's Director of Probation. "The problem of the militant inmates festers beneath everything we are trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Prisons: The Way to Reform | 9/27/1971 | See Source »

...autistics, who make up most of the N.S.A.C.'s 700 members, are lobbying to force all states to provide this kind of care through the public schools. So widespread is the feeling that children with severe mental illness can never be helped, says N.S.A.C. Legislative Chairman Herman Preiser, that only six states make it mandatory to provide any education for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mental Illness: The Trance Children | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

GRETA KELLER ZWISCHEN NEW YORK UNO WIEN (Preiser). Imperishable lovers of the imperishable Greta Keller, 60, will swoon over this album of her Theater an der Wien concert last fall. She sings everything from Wienerschnitzel to Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 1, 1966 | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

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