Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even coerced confessions are by no means automatically excluded by the courts. State judges, who are mostly elected, are sometimes subject to strong public pressure to convict in crimes that shock the community. Conversely, the vast majority of criminal defendants plead guilty and waive trial in order to make things easier for themselves. Many prosecutors, anxious to build their conviction records, engage in "bargain justice," the practice of pressuring defendants to plead guilty to reduced charges. Of some 12% who do stand trial, nearly all are convicted; only a handful ever succeed in having tainted evidence excluded...
...shock and disbelief of what is still an incredulous minute in American history, he became President. I shall never forget that day. He sat in the cabin of Air Force One, a scant few minutes after the assassination, solemn, grim, his face an unyielding mask. All around him everyone was in various states of shock, nearing collapse. But the new President sat there, like a large grey stone mountain, untouched by fear or frenzy, from whom everyone began to draw strength. And suddenly, as though the darkness of the cave confided its fears to the trail of light growing larger...
...more appealing candidate. For that matter, neither of his two ablest lieutenants and most likely successors-Reginald Maudling, now the Opposition's foreign policy expert, and Edward Heath, its "shadow" economics minister-has yet shown any relish for challenging the leader. The Tories, still recovering from the shock of finding themselves on the outs after 13 years in office, have at least closed ranks-a feat that perennially eludes Wilson's Laborites. And last week, the odds in favor of a Tory victory in the next election stood...
...also with alto sax, clarinet, bongos and bass? Increasingly, U.S. churches are coming around to the idea that contemporary worship can have a contemporary beat, and jazz in the liturgy, once a way for adventurous pastors to shock their congregations, is now taken seriously as an approach that Christianity can follow in praising the Lord. More important, the jazz being heard in cathedral chancels is no longer amateurish doodling at Dixieland by clerics in their off-hours but scores composed and played by topflight professional musicians who are intrigued by the possibilities of blending their art with the traditional forms...
Died. Claud H. Foster, 92, Ohio inventor and philanthropist, who in 1911 patented the first practical automobile shock absorber, netted nearly $10 million selling the device to Detroit's automakers before he sold his company to Otis & Co., investors, for $4,000,000 in 1925, whereupon he retired to a $3,500 bungalow on Lake Erie, emerging in 1952 to host a huge dinner party at which he distributed $3,879,700 to 16 charitable and educational Cleveland organizations because "too many institutions get their money from dead men"; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Bellevue, Ohio...