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...Gudbranson, 40, the wife of a naval supply officer, she and Jensen made love in a motel near the base last July 8. Testifying for the defense, Dr. Clay Wickham told the court that at the time the skin around Jensen's midsection had been covered with "a rash and boils," which would have made sex a painful enterprise at best. A character witness, Captain Thomas Loomis, who had served aboard the carrier Ticonderoga with Jensen, offered a well-meant if ill-phrased testimonial. Jensen, he said, was "the finest example of moral turpitude on the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: The Chaplain's Case | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...pitched battles between immigrant Taiwanese and U.S.-born Chinese youths recently resulted in two homicides. In Castle Hill, a lower middle-class neighborhood in the East Bronx, teachers at Adlai Stevenson High School say that a gang of black girls called the Black Persuaders is one reason for a rash of student transfers. The Persuaders' initiation rite requires the new member to beat up a white girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Southeast Side Story | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...rash of Washington leaks-by-Xerox may produce at least one beneficial side effect: a reduction in governmental paper work. Members of the White House staff have been instructed never to write a memo on a sensitive subject when a telephone call would serve equally well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Writing Block | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

...cost of production for three straight months, and only upon approval by two-thirds of the nation's producers in a referendum. Compliance would be enforced with fines of up to $5,000. Such drastic measures are warranted, argues Committee Chairman Herman Talmadge of Georgia, to avoid a rash of chicken-farm bankruptcies. "They have been selling eggs below the cost of production for two years," he says. "If that isn't need, I don't know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Henocide | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

Miraculously, no one was injured in the rash of bomb planting, some not the work of Gomez but probably inspired by his example. (Airport switchboards across the country were flooded with crank calls of false bomb threats.) Gomez himself gave the location of the TWA bomb that was found, warning that it was on Flight No. 7, which had just taken off from New York for Los Angeles. The plane hurried back to Kennedy Airport and was emptied; then two sniffer dogs trained to smell out explosives boarded the ship. It was their first live test, and one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Holding Up an Industry | 3/20/1972 | See Source »

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