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...victim guilty?" Seldom, very seldom. When society does not have an answer as to why criminals are criminals, it tries to make the victim worthy of his injury or harm. We must do this to preserve our concept of the "just world," where evil is returned for evil and good for good...
...print the facts as laid down in the now-celebrated Pentagon papers. All week long, the Government fought a running battle with restraining orders against two of the country's most respected newspapers. Attorneys for the New York Times and the Washington Post pounded away at the seldom-invoked practice of "prior restraint," arguing that the public's right to know and the First Amendment guarantee of press freedom ruled out pre-publication censorship...
...command as much newsprint space as the Times, the great majority of editors, in the words of Denver Post Executive Editor William Hornby, "would have done just what the Times did." The little (circ. 13,500) Daily News in Anchorage, Alaska, has a tiny news-hole, and seldom exceeds 16 pages a day; yet it ran the entire Times package, word for word and spaced out over several days...
Everything about Doc is superlative. To begin with, he is the richest man in the world. He is also the handsomest. His eyes are "hypnotic whirlpools of flake gold" and his "perfect features display a power of character seldom seen." Best of all, Doc is really built. His "giant" body, "kilned by tropical suns and arctic winds" to a permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman." He can dodge a bullet, crawl up a wall like a human fly, stay under water for eight minutes, smash through an inch-thick steel door with one punch, and take...
...smaller but more persistent social problems. In New York and most other urban areas of the East, for example, an invitation for dinner at 8 really means 8:30; the hostess would be stunned, perhaps even destroyed, by prompt arrival. A "sixish" party at East Coast summer resorts seldom begins before 7-and guests are on time if they show up before midnight. In the West or Midwest, however, the time declared on an invitation normally means what it says, within five or ten minutes...