Word: scopes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Murder & Loan Sharking. Behind the sudden concern was a 20-volume Brazilian government report that revealed the scope of the carnage, and even implicated Indian Service officials themselves. Working on their own or with local land speculators, officials were accused of systematically murdering or terrorizing Indians in order to force them off their land. Once a tribe vacated land, the property reverted to the government and could then be picked up cheaply. In only two years of service, the government claimed, former I.P.S. Director Luis Vinhas Neves (1964-66) committed 42 separate crimes against the Indians-including collusion in several...
Beyond Adult Scope. In 1965, a 16-year-old boy bought a few girlie magazines from Sam Ginsberg at his Bellmore, L.I., stationery store and luncheonette. Ginsberg was tried and convicted under New York's new juvenile obscenity law; he appealed. His contention was that the right of a person to read or see material "cannot be made to depend upon whether the citizen is an adult or a minor." But the contention does not wash, said Justice William Brennan, who is frequently the author of the court's opinions on obscenity...
...thing, the court held 24 years ago in Prince v. Massachusetts, a child-labor-law case, that "the power of the state to control the conduct of children reaches beyond the scope of its authority over adults." And Brennan added last week that "the well-being of its children is of course a subject within the state's constitutional power to regulate." He also pointed out that New York's "prohibition does not bar parents who so desire from purchasing the magazines for their children." As to whether or not girlie magazines and similar material actually impair...
...course of nearly two centuries, the Boston Society has reduced its scope as its beneficiaries have dwindled. It still actively propagates the gospel--but recently it has been running into financial difficulties. Even with half the balance of Dr. Williams' annuity, the Society's income (from contributions and from the interest on $100,000 in assets) amounts to barely enough to pay half the salary of a Protestant field representative and to pay for repairs and insurance of the church at Mashpee
...networks, of course, disagree. ABC, for one, had an excellent weekly series called ABC Scope, which dealt largely with nonmilitary aspects of the war. Trouble was, Viet Nam battle scenes were on TV every night, while in many cities local stations aired Scope in the off hours of Sunday morning or not at all. The affiliates were not wholly to blame. Even when the show was run in prime time, so few people watched that it was eventually dumped. Such lessons have not gone unheeded. Says one Miami newsman: "We are going to use the best pictures-which means those...